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Variations\nin hyphenation has been standardised but all other spelling and\npunctuation remains unchanged.\n\nWhere digits in the original are illegible this is\nindicated by [TN: illegible]\n\nItalics are represented thus _italic_ and bold thus =bold= .\n\n\n\n\n Sent Free of Postage on Receipt of Price.\n\n * * * * *\n\n Dick\u2019s One Hundred Amusements for Evening Parties, Picnics and Social\n Gatherings. This book is full of Original Novelties. It contains:\n\n _New and Attractive Games, clearly illustrated by means of Witty\n Examples, showing how each may be most successfully played._\n\n _Surprising Tricks, easy of performance._\n\n _Musical and other innocent sells._\n\n _A variety of new and ingenious puzzles._\n\n _Comical Illusions, fully described. These surprising and grotesque\n illusions are very startling in their effects, and present little or\n no difficulty in their preparation._\n\n\n ALSO AN ENTIRELY NEW VERSION OF THE CELEBRATED\n \u201cMRS. JARLEY\u2019S WAX WORKS.\u201d\n\n[Illustration: THE FLEXIBLE GIANT. A COMIC ILLUSION.]\n\nIllustrated and explained by sixty fine wood engravings.\n\n Illuminated paper covers =30 cts.=\n Bound in boards, with cloth back =50 cts.=\n\n\n The Art and Etiquette of Making Love. A Manual of Love, Courtship and\n Matrimony. It tells\n\n[Illustration: Cherubs playing leap-frog]]\n\n _How to Cure Bashfulness;_\n\n _How to Commence a Courtship;_\n\n _How to Please a Sweetheart or Lover;_\n\n _How to Write a Love-Letter;_\n\n _How to \u202f\u201cPop the Question\u201d;_\n\n _How to Act Before and After a Proposal;_\n\n _How to Accept or Reject a Proposal;_\n\n _How to Break off an Engagement;_\n\n _How to Act After an Engagement;_\n\n _How to Act as Bridesmaid or Groomsman;_\n\n _How the Etiquette of a Wedding and the After-Reception Should be\n Observed;_\n\n And, in fact, how to fulfill every duty and meet every contingency\n connected with courtship and matrimony. It includes also a choice\n collection of sensible Letters suitable for all the contingencies of\n Love and Courtship.\n\n 176 pages, paper covers =30 cts.=\n Bound in boards, cloth back =50 cts.=\n\n\n =Dick\u2019s Quadrille Call-Book and Ball-Room Prompter.=\n Containing clear directions how to call out the figures of every\n dance, with the quantity of music necessary for each figure, and\n simple explanations of all the figures and steps which occur in Plain\n and Fancy Quadrilles. Also, a plain analysis and description of all\n the steps employed in the favorite round dances, fully describing:\n\n _The Opening March or Polonaise,_\n _Various Plain and Fancy Quadrilles,_\n _Waltz and Glide Quadrilles,_\n _Plain Lancers and Caledonians,_\n _Glide Lancers and Caledonians,_\n _Saratoga Lancers,_\n _The Parisian Varieties,_\n _The Prince Imperial Set,_\n _Social and Basket Quadrilles,_\n _Nine-Pin and Star Quadrilles,_\n _Gavotte and Minuet Quadrilles,_\n _March and Cheat Quadrilles,_\n _Favorite Jigs and Contra-Dances,_\n _Polka and Polka Redowa,_\n _Redowa and Redowa Waltz,_\n _Polka Mazourka and Old Style Waltz,_\n _Modern Plain Waltz and Glide,_\n _Boston Dip and Hop Waltz,_\n _Five-Step Waltz and Schottische,_\n _Varsovienne and Zulma L\u2019Orientale,_\n _Galop and Deux Temps,_\n _Esmeralda, Sicilienne, Danish Dance_\n\n AND OVER ONE HUNDRED FIGURES FOR THE \u202f\u201cGERMAN;\u201d\n\n To which is added a Sensible Guide to Etiquette and Proper Deportment\n in the Ball and Assembly Room, besides seventy pages of dance music\n for the piano.\n\n Paper covers =50 cts.=\n Bound in boards =75 cts.=\n\n\n =Uncle Josh\u2019s Trunkful of Fun.=\n A portfolio of first-class Wit and Humor, and never-ending source of\n Jollity.\n\n CONTAINING A RICH COLLECTION OF\n\n _Comical Stories, Cruel Sells,_\n _Side-Splitting Jokes,_\n _Humorous Poetry,_\n _Quaint Parodies,_\n _Burlesque Sermons,_\n _New Conundrums,_\n _Mirth-Provoking Speeches,_\n _Curious Puzzles,_\n _Amusing Card Tricks,_ _and_\n _Astonishing Feats of Parlor-Magic._\n\n[Illustration: Laughing Man]\n\n This book is illustrated with nearly 200 Funny Engravings, and\n contains 64 large octavo double-column pages. =15 cts.=\n\n\n =Barber\u2019s American Book of Ready-Made Speeches.=\n Containing 159 original examples of Humorous and Serious Speeches,\n suitable for every possible occasion where a speech may be called for,\n with appropriate replies to each.\n\n INCLUDING\n\n _Presentation Speeches._\n _Convivial Speeches._\n _Festival Speeches._\n _Addresses of Congratulation._\n _Addresses of Welcome._\n _Addresses of Compliment._\n _Political Speeches._\n _Dinner and Supper Speeches for Clubs, etc._\n _Off-Hand Speeches on a Variety of Subjects._\n _Miscellaneous Speeches._\n _Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Private Entertainments._\n _Preambles and Resolutions of Congratulation, Compliment and\n Condolence._\n\n With this book any person may prepare himself to make a neat little\n speech, or reply to one when called upon to do so. They are all short,\n appropriate and witty, and even ready speakers may profit by them.\n\n Paper =50 cts.=\n Bound in boards, cloth back =75 cts.=\n\n\n =The Amateur Trapper and Trap-Maker\u2019s Guide.=\n A complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of Trapping,\n Snaring and Netting; containing plain directions for constructing the\n most approved Traps, Snares, Nets and Dead-Falls; the best methods of\n applying them to their various purposes; and the most successful Baits\n for attracting all kinds of Animals, Birds, etc., with their special\n uses in each case; introducing receipts for preparing Skins and Furs\n for Market.\n\n[Illustration: A Trap]\n\n The entire work is based on the experience of the most successful\n Trappers, and on information derived from other authentic professional\n sources. By Stanley Harding. This comprehensive work is embellished\n with fifty well drawn and engraved illustrations; and these, together\n with the clear explanations which accompany them, will enable anybody\n of moderate comprehension to make and set any of the traps described.\n IT TELLS\n\n _How to make all kinds of Traps;_\n _How to make all kinds of Snares;_\n _How to Set and Secure Traps;_\n _How to Attract Animals from a Distance;_\n _How to Prepare Baits;_\n _How to Bait a Trap;_\n _How to Trap or Snare all kinds of Animals;_\n _How to Trap or Snare Birds of every description;_\n _How to Cure and Tan Skins;_\n _How to Skin and Stuff Birds or Animals._\n\nIt also gives the baits usually employed by the most successful Hunters\nand Trappers, and exposes their secret methods of attracting and\ncatching Animals, Birds, etc., with scarcely a possibility of failure.\n\n Large 16mo, paper covers =50 cts.=\n Bound in boards, cloth back =75 cts.=\n\n\n =How to Write a Composition.=\n The use of this hand-book will save the student the many hours of\n labor too often wasted in trying to write a plain composition. It\n affords a perfect skeleton of one hundred and seventeen different\n subjects, with their headings or divisions clearly defined, and each\n heading filled in with the ideas which the subject suggests: so that\n all the writer has to do, in order to produce a good composition, is\n to enlarge on them to suit his taste and inclination.\n\n 178 pages, paper covers =30 cts.=\n Bound in boards, cloth back =50 cts.=\n\n =The Magician\u2019s Own Book.=\n One of the most extraordinary and interesting volumes ever\n printed\u2014containing the Whole Art of Conjuring, and all the Discoveries\n in Magic ever made, either by ancient or modern philosophers. IT\n EXPLAINS\n\n _All Sleight of Hand Tricks;_\n _Tricks and Deceptions with Cards;_\n _The Magic of Chemistry;_\n _Mysterious Experiments in Electricity and Galvanism;_\n _The Magic of Pneumatics, Aerostatics, Optics, etc.;_\n _The Magic of Numbers;_\n _Curious Tricks in Geometry;_\n _Mysterious and Amusing Puzzles, and answers thereto;_\n _The Magic of Art;_\n _Miscellaneous Tricks and Experiments;_\n _Curious Fancies, etc., etc._\n\n[Illustration: Two hands holding coins]\n\n The tricks are all illustrated by Engravings and Tables, so as to make\n them easily understood and practiced. As a volume for the amusement of\n an evening party, this book cannot be surpassed.\n\n Gilt binding, 362 pages =$1.50=\n\n\n =East Lynne; or, The Earl\u2019s Daughter.=\n Library edition, complete and unabridged. This novel is Mrs. Henry\n Wood\u2019s masterpiece, and stands in the very front rank of all the\n works of fiction ever written; it has scarcely a rival as a brilliant\n creation of literary genius, and is prominent among the very few works\n of its class that have stood the test of time, and achieved a lasting\n reputation. In originality of design, and masterly and dramatic\n development of the subject, East Lynne stands unrivaled; it will be\n read and re-read long after the majority of the ephemeral romances of\n to-day have passed out of existence and been forgotten. A handsome\n 12mo volume of 598 pages, from new electrotype plates, printed on fine\n toned paper, and elegantly bound in cloth, in black and gold\n\n =$1.50=\n\n\n\n\n FONTAINE\u2019S\n\n GOLDEN WHEEL FORTUNE-TELLER,\n\n AND\n\n DREAM BOOK.\n\n\n DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS,\n 18 ANN STREET.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: THE GOLDEN WHEEL FORTUNE TELLER.]\n\n\n\n\n THE\n\n GOLDEN WHEEL DREAM-BOOK,\n\n AND\n\n FORTUNE-TELLER,\n\nBEING THE MOST COMPLETE WORK ON FORTUNE-TELLING AND INTERPRETING DREAMS\n EVER PRINTED, CONTAINING AN\n\n ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DREAMS, WITH THEIR\n INTERPRETATION,\n\n AND THE LUCKY NUMBERS THEY SIGNIFY.\n\n ALSO EXPLAINING HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY THE MYSTERIOUS GOLDEN WHEEL,\n WITH CARDS, DICE, AND DOMINOES. HOW TO TELL FUTURE EVENTS BY\n THE LINES OF THE HANDS, BY MOLES ON THE BODY, BY THE FACE,\n NAILS OF THE FINGERS, HAIR AND SHAPE OF THE HEAD.\n HOW TO FIND WHERE TO DIG FOR WATER, COAL,\n AND ALL KINDS OF METALS, BY MEANS OF\n\n THE CELEBRATED DIVINING OR LUCK ROD.\n\nHOW TO TELL THE TEMPER AND DISPOSITION OF ANYBODY, HOW TO TELL FORTUNES\n WITH TEA LEAVES AND COFFEE GROUNDS, SIGNS OF THE MOON\u2019S AGE, LUCKY\n AND UNLUCKY DAYS, TOGETHER WITH CHARMS TO MAKE YOUR\n SWEETHEART LOVE YOU, AND TO MAKE A LOVER POP THE\n QUESTION, WITH TWENTY WAYS OF TELLING FORTUNES\n ON NEW YEAR\u2019S EVE, AND A COMPLETE\n LANGUAGE AND SIGNIFICATION\n OF THE FLOWERS.\n\n BY FELIX FONTAINE,\nProfessor of Astrology, and Lecturer on Astronomy and Spiritual Philosophy.\n\n ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.\n\n NEW YORK:\n DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS,\n 18 ANN STREET.\n\n\n\n\n CONTENTS.\n\n PAGE.\n\n Bride\u2019s Omen 129\n\n Bridge Omen 132\n\n\n Candle Spell 132\n\n \u201c Token 129\n\n Card Charm 127\n\n Cards, Fortune-telling with 94\n\n Cat Portent 126\n\n Charm against Nightmare 130\n\n Charms and Magic Prognostications 124\n\n Cricket 128\n\n Crow Sign 129\n\n\n Death-tick 128\n\n Dice, How to find Lucky Numbers with 92\n\n Dice, How to tell Fortunes with 106\n\n Dominoes, How to tell Fortunes with 101\n\n Dreams, about the Interpretation of 7\n\n Dreams, Alphabetical List of 10-92\n\n \u201c What are 7\n\n\n Easter-water 130\n\n\n Finger-nails, Signification of the 120\n\n Frog Prognostic 129\n\n\n Golden Wheel, How to tell Fortunes by the 3\n\n Golden Wheel of Fortune, The 3\n\n\n Hair Spell 133\n\n Hair, To choose a Husband by the 119\n\n Hand, Telling Fortunes by the Lines of the 109\n\n How a Girl may ascertain if she will ever marry 125\n\n How to be sure of a Partner at a Dance 129\n\n How to discover if your Wish will be Fulfilled 100\n\n How to get a Sweetheart 130\n\n How to tell the first letter of your\n future Wife\u2019s or Husband\u2019s name 131\n\n\n Key and Book Charm 126\n\n\n Language of Flowers 139\n\n Lead and Wax Spell 131\n\n Lucky and Unlucky Days 133\n\n\n Means to compel Love 125\n\n Moles, Telling Fortunes by 114\n\n\n Nail Token 133\n\n New Moon 126\n\n New Year\u2019s Eve, How to tell Fortunes on 131\n\n Nutshell Witchery 132\n\n\n Omen of Riches 128\n\n\n Palmistry 109\n\n Phrenology and Physiognomy 111\n\n\n Rabbit Augury 130\n\n Rye Charm 130\n\n\n Saucer Charm 131\n\n Scissor or Knife Prognostic 126\n\n Sheep and Swine Token 130\n\n Shift Charm 93\n\n Signs from the Moon\u2019s age 137\n\n Sign of a Sneeze 128\n\n Sign of Visitors 126\n\n Sign when your Ear tingles 128\n\n \u201c \u201c \u201c Nose itches 128\n\n \u201c \u201c you wet your Apron 133\n\n Spider Omen 127\n\n Star Augury 129\n\n Strange Bed 128\n\n Straw Sign 126\n\n String Token 128\n\n\n Table to find Lucky Numbers 9\n\n Tea or Coffee-Grounds, Fortune-telling by 121\n\n Telling Fortunes by Dominoes and Dice 100\n\n The Divining-rod, to tell where to dig for Water and Metals 134\n\n Thirty Physiological Significations 142\n\n To find out whom one is to have for a Husband 99\n\n To know if a Woman with Child will have a Girl or a Boy 129\n\n To know the Temper and Disposition of every one 138\n\n To prepare a Love Potion 124\n\n\n What a Prick in the Finger signifies 130\n\n What a Spider-web foretells 130\n\n\n Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862,\n BY DICK & FITZGERALD,\n In the Clerk\u2019s Office of the District Court of the United States for\n the Southern District of New York.\n\n\n\n\n FONTAINE\u2019S\n\n GOLDEN WHEEL DREAM-BOOK,\n\n AND\n\n FORTUNE-TELLER.\n\n\n THE GOLDEN WHEEL OF FORTUNE.\n\n\nThis singular wheel was much consulted in the middle ages, and is said\nto have been used by Cagliostro to aid him in his divinations. I have\nselected it from an old Latin manuscript on Astrology, and translated\nit into English for the benefit of those of my readers who cannot read\nthe former language. SEE FRONTISPIECE.\n\n\n THE GOLDEN WHEEL OF FORTUNE SHOWS:\n\n I. _Whether you shall obtain the favor of the person you desire?_\n\n II. _If the querent shall meet with the preferment he wisheth for?_\n\n III. _Whether a sick person will recover?_\n\n IV. _If the said sickness will be long or short?_\n\n V. _Shall your expectation or wish succeed?_\n\n VI. _If it is good for you to marry, or otherwise?_\n\n VII. _Whether the friendship of a certain person will prove\n advantageous or not?_\n\n VIII. _Whether a person shall be rich or poor? etc., etc._\n\n\n HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY THE GOLDEN WHEEL.\n\nThe person whose fortune is to be told, must place the wheel of\nFortune face downward, prick into a number (it is better to do it with\ntheir eyes shut), then refer for an explanation, which stands at the\ncorresponding number as that you pricked into. (See Frontispiece.)\n\n_The following observations answer for either sex, the party,\ntherefore, trying this wheel, must alter wife for husband, or just as\nthe answers may suit either party._\n\n1. If this number is fixed upon, it assures the person that you will\nmarry an homely person, but rich.\n\n2. Whatever your intentions are, for the present, decline them. Those\nabsent will return.\n\n3. Shows loss of friends; bad success at law; loss of money;\nunfaithfulness in love.\n\n4. If your desires are extravagant, they will not be granted; but mind\nhow you make use of your fortune.\n\n5. Very good fortune; sudden prosperity; great respect from high\npersonages; a letter bringing important news.\n\n6. Look well to those who owe you money, if ever so little, a letter of\nabuse may be expected.\n\n7. Your lover will act constant and true toward you.\n\n8. A friend has crossed the sea, and will bring home riches, by which\nyou will be much benefited.\n\n9. A loving partner; success in your undertakings; a large and\nprosperous family.\n\n10. Your husband will not have a great fortune, but with your\nassistance he is likely to live in middling circumstances.\n\n11. A very sudden journey, with a pleasant fellow-traveller, and the\nresult of the journey will be generally beneficial to your family.\n\n12. You may regain that which you have lost with great perseverance and\ntrouble.\n\n13. A letter of importance will arrive, announcing the death of a\nrelative for whom you have no very great respect, but who has left you\na legacy.\n\n14. By venturing carefully, you will gain doubly, though you will\nsuffer great privation.\n\n15. You will meet with many crosses before you are comfortably settled.\n\n16. Too sudden acquaintance with the opposite sex; but which will be\nopposed; notwithstanding the party should persevere, as it will be to\nhis or her advantage.\n\n17. An agreeable partner, a good temper, and a large family of children.\n\n18. Let the chooser of this number persevere; for your schemes are\ngood, and must succeed.\n\n19. You will marry young, and have dutiful children.\n\n20. Your lover may be low in circumstances, but affectionate.\n\n21. Your marriage will add to your welfare, and you will be very happy.\n\n22. A drunken partner, bad success in trade, but the party will never\nbe very poor, though always unhappy.\n\n23. Do not neglect your lover; let your conduct command respect.\n\n24. You have many friends, and will probably have a large and virtuous\nfamily.\n\n25. Your travels will be prosperous, if you are prudent.\n\n26. You have many enemies, who will endeavor to make you unhappy.\n\n27. The luck that is ordained for you, will be coveted by others.\n\n28. Be very prudent in your conduct, as this number is very precarious,\nand much depends upon yourself; it is generally good.\n\n29. Beware, or you will be deceived by the person you are paying your\nattentions to.\n\n30. You love one who is affectionate and true, and deserves respect.\n\n31. You too fantastically refuse offers. Be prudent when you accept, or\nyou will be sorry.\n\n32. You will be very unfortunate for a short time, but be careful, and\nyour situation will very soon alter.\n\n33. A fortune will be yours, but be not over anxious.\n\n34. Alter your intentions, or you will be sorry when it is too late.\n\n35. You will have a rich, but jealous partner, and will live very\nuncomfortably.\n\n36. You will have a sober, steady, and affectionate partner, but poor.\n\n37. A very good fortune, sudden prosperity, and a large family.\n\n38. The persons who choose this unlucky number, must look well to their\nconduct; or justice will overtake them.\n\n39. Remain among your friends, then you will escape misfortune.\n\n40. You will have an affectionate partner, but no family; and a large\nfortune.\n\n41. If you have a fortune, be charitable; if but little, be frugal.\n\n42. You will have a quarrel with your lover, through jealousy.\n\n43. You must bear your losses with fortitude.\n\n44. You will get a handsome, young, and wealthy partner.\n\n45. When your conduct changes, your fortune will mend, by marrying a\nrich partner.\n\n46. You have mixed with bad company, and you may depend on it, that you\nwill be brought to disgrace.\n\n47. A large family of healthy children, give them learning, and they\nwill honor their father and mother.\n\n48. You will be very unfortunate at first, but persevere, and your\nschemes will be successful.\n\n49. You have a number of secret enemies, who will try to do you an\ninjury; be on your guard and you will prosper.\n\n50. Your happiness will consist in doing good: they are pleasing spots\nin the memory, which vexations cannot erase.\n\n51. You will die an old maid, you have been too whimsical in choosing\nfor yourself a partner.\n\n52. Your lover will travel in Europe, and will be very successful.\n\n53. You will marry a person with whom you will have but little comfort.\n\n54. This is a very lucky number; whatever you do, will always prove\nsuccessful.\n\n55. After much misfortune, you will be pretty comfortable and happy.\n\n56. Good conduct will produce much luck and happiness.\n\n57. Through affection you will marry unfortunately; but you must make\none another happy.\n\n58. You have many lovers, but mind how you choose, or else you will\nsuffer for it.\n\n59. Your lover is on his return home, but he has met with severe losses.\n\n60. A letter announcing the loss of money.\n\n61. You have a secret enemy, mind or he will do you some harm.\n\n62. Warns you against the evil consequences of idleness, either in\nyourself or partner.\n\n63. Your partner will be very rich, but very neglectful.\n\n64. You will be very poor and miserable, with one child.\n\n65. Sincere love from an upright heart will be rewarded.\n\n66. You will marry an old person with whom you will be very unhappy.\n\n67. Plenty of offers will happen before one is worthy of acceptance, be\ncautious how you make your choice.\n\n68. You will play with the mouse till you lose it.\n\n69. Take heed, you are being deceived by your lover.\n\n70. You will meet with great trouble, you should have consulted your\nfriends.\n\n71. Beware, the person you love, does not love you, he seeks your ruin.\n\n72. If you marry in haste, you will be deceived, wait patiently, and\nyou will be happy.\n\n73. Hard work, hard fare, little joy, and much care.\n\n74. A scolding wife, but rich.\n\n75. Your partner will be very rich, but will have no children.\n\n76. You have a rival, be not deceived; depend on our tablets, and you\nwill better your condition.\n\n77. You will have many children, but will be very poor.\n\n78. Do not delay, hasten your marriage, or you will lose your virtue.\n\n79. Your wife will have no children, and will be addicted to drinking\nliquors.\n\n80. Be honest and industrious, and you will triumph over your enemies.\n\n81. You will have children, who, if you give them a good education,\nwill make you happy.\n\n82. You will fall into great difficulties, you will lose your partner\nand marry a drunkard.\n\n83. Hasten your marriage; the person is faithful, and you will be happy.\n\n84. You must break off the connection you have formed, or you will come\nto absolute want.\n\n85. Your lover is jealous of you, and will break off the connection.\n\n86. You will travel in Europe, and be married there, but will have no\nchildren.\n\n87. You will get married, but not till you begin to get old.\n\n88. Beware, you have a secret enemy who will try and do you some injury.\n\n89. You will die an old maid.\n\n90. You will marry three different times, and still be very poor and\nmiserable.\n\n91. The person you are paying your attentions to, is deceitful.\n\n92. If you marry, you will have great trouble, and many children; be\npersuaded, and live single, then you will be happy.\n\n93. You will live to a great age and be happy.\n\n94. There is a young man dying in love for you, but mind you are not\nled astray.\n\n95. You will marry poor, but in the end be rich.\n\n96. You are too whimsical and deceitful ever to be happy.\n\n97. Be not flattered, for you have an amorous sweetheart.\n\n98. A shocking accident will happen to you, or to your children, which\nwill cause great trouble.\n\n99. You will discover your false lover.\n\n100. You will have a very handsome, but artful partner.\n\n\n\n\n WHAT ARE DREAMS?\n\n\nI offer you in this work, my dear reader, all that can be collected\nin reference to dreams. Notwithstanding the proverbial saying, \u202f\u201cAll\ndreams are lies,\u201d we frequently see the realization of them, and by\nthem we are informed of more or less interesting events which afterward\nhappen to us. A prudent and enlightened man will therefore examine\ncarefully his dreams to know which he ought to interpret, neglecting\nthose which are extravagant because of too exalted an imagination or of\na disturbed digestion.\n\nIn consulting this book with attention, in seeking in it for the\nexplanation of your dreams, and calculating the causes which have\nproduced them, you will rarely depart from the truth, because you will\nbe following the rules of a wise combination, which will prevent you\nfrom falling into an illusory if not fatal error.\n\n\n FOREKNOWLEDGE, OR INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS.\n\nIn the Holy Scriptures God says, that he \u202f\u201cwill pour his Spirit on all\nflesh, that the young men and maidens shall prophesy, the old men shall\nsee visions, and the young men dream dreams.\u201d Both sacred and profane\nhistory are full of so many examples of the fulfilment of dreams, that\nhe must be very skeptical and but little versed in natural science who\nwould refuse to have faith in them.\n\nHippocrates says that when the body is asleep the soul is awake, and\ntransports itself everywhere, where the body would be able to go, that\nit knows and sees all that the body could know or see were it awake;\nthat it touches all the body could touch, in a word, that it performs\nall the actions that the body of a sleeping man could do were he awake.\n\nThere are five kinds of dreams, differently named according to their\ndifferent qualities. The first is dream, the second vision, the third\noracle, the fourth revery, and the fifth apparition.\n\nA dream is that which, while we are asleep, shows us the truth hidden\nunder certain figures, as when Joseph interpreted to king Pharaoh the\ndream concerning the seven lean kine that devoured the seven fat ones;\nthe dream of the seven full ears of corn, etc.\n\nA vision is simply a dream happening when the body is awake instead of\nsleeping, as Vespasian when he saw the surgeon who had extracted Nero\u2019s\ntooth.\n\nThe oracle is a revelation, or information given us by some angel or\nother celestial spirit who does God\u2019s bidding. The angel appearing to\nJoseph the husband of the Virgin, and to the wise men, are examples of\nthis.\n\nRevery occurs when the passions are so vehement that they destroy the\nmental equilibrium for a time. Then what one thinks of during the day\nhe will dream of at night, as a lover who has been thinking during the\nday of his beloved one will continue to do so at night while he is\nsleeping. Sometimes when one fears to meet a person, he will dream at\nnight that he has met him; having fasted during the day, he will dream\nof eating, or, having been thirsty, of drinking. Avarice will make the\nmiser dream of his gold, and speak of it when sleeping, as he would not\ndo when awake.\n\nApparition is named Phantom by the Greeks, and is only that nocturnal\nvision sometimes presented to children and weak-minded persons, who\nimagine they see objects presented to intimidate or pain them.\n\nOf these five kinds of dreams, the three first have an appearance of\ntruth, but the last two are absolutely false.\n\nIt is to be remarked, with regard to all dreams, that those of which\nonly parts are remembered, signify nothing at all; that those that\nmemory retains are good and true; that they ought to occur about\nday-break, or at least after midnight, because until that time the\nsenses and the body are occupied in the labor of digestion, and the\nmind disturbed by the remembrance of dinner, can dream of nothing\nreasonable. Nevertheless Artemidorus says, that a sober, temperate, and\ntranquil man can dream at any hour of the night, or even during the\nday, and that the fulfilment of such dreams will be certain.\n\nSome authors divide dreams into three kinds, namely, dreams of natural\nobjects, of animals, and of celestial objects. The natural things are\nthose by which physicians judge of the temperament; dreams of animals\nshow the passions and cares that the mind has felt during the day;\nthose of celestial objects are the intimations of divine things, as\nfor example, the statue that the king of Babylon saw when asleep, which\nis so well explained by the prophet Daniel.\n\nThere are few persons who have the gift of dreaming that which will be\nfulfilled, fewer still who know how to interpret them, because it is\nnecessary to observe many things not generally known.\n\nThere are two principal kinds of dreams, the speculative or\ncontemplative, and the allegorical or significative. To these one ought\nto pay attention, the speculative happening in the fulfilment as it\noccurred in dreams, for example: A prisoner in a small prison at Paris\ndreamed that a cord was being attached to his neck to hang him, that\nafter it was done a stranger appeared with a sword who severed the cord\nand delivered him from death; this was fulfilled the next day, for the\njudge having pronounced his sentence, and given him to the hangman, he\nwas delivered by unknown persons employed by his friends. Allegorical\ndreams on the contrary never happen as one has dreamed. Thus, to dream\nof an angel, signifies revelation or good news, but to see a serpent\nwhich tries to bite one signifies troubles arising from the envy of\nothers.\n\nSpeculative dreams are soon fulfilled, allegorical ones not so quickly;\na day or two often intervening between the dream and its completion.\n\n\n ABOUT THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS.\n\n\u202f\u201cDreams? Nonsense!\u201d I hear some grave-faced person cry. Indeed!\nAnd where did this grave-faced person learn his wisdom? Not from\nexperience, I will engage. No, experience teaches us the reverse of\nthis. Dreams are _by no means_ nonsense. This I maintain openly in the\nface of all the world.\n\nI maintain even that _every dream has its signification_. Not that it\nalways discloses the future, I am far from asserting that. I say only\nit _has its signification_. Commonly a dream \"permits us to cast a\nglance into the soul or into the heart of man. The thoughts which dwell\nin the former, and the feelings which sway the latter, shape themselves\nin sleep into various images, which throw a strong light upon the\ncharacter. There have no doubt been many extravagant fictions palmed\noff as facts relative to dreams, but yet enough credible evidence\nexists of their importance to make any strange dream the subject of\nreflection and examination on the part of the dreamer; and it cannot be\ndenied that many things in our dreams are actually omens.\n\n\n A LIST OF DREAMS, WITH THEIR TRUE INTERPRETATION, TOGETHER WITH\n THE LUCKY NUMBERS OF THE LOTTERY WHICH THEY SIGNIFY.\n\nABOVE. To dream you see any thing hanging _above_ you signifies you\nwill improve in your worldly prospects, and soon be in a better\nsituation than you were before you had the dream. 76, 62, 14.\n\nABSENCE. To dream of absent persons, signifies that they will soon\nreturn. It also denotes success in business. 4, 22.\n\nABSCESS. If you dream you have an abscess, or running sore on your\nperson, it foretells good fortune and good health, to be preceded by\nsickness. 3, 27.\n\nABUSE. To dream that you are abused and insulted, is a sign that some\ndispute will happen between you and some person with whom you have\nbusiness; if you are in love, be assured that some one has attempted to\ninjure you with the object of your affections, and that they have in a\ngreat measure succeeded. 6, 38, 44.\n\nABUNDANCE. If you dream you have an over-abundance of any thing, it\ngoes by contrary, and is a sign of a scarcity; as if a farmer should\ndream that he had a great crop, it would predict a scarcity\u2014not perhaps\nof that particular article of which he dreamed, but of something that\nwould be important to him. 15.\n\nABYSS. To see an abyss, or deep hole, is a warning; avoid, after such\na dream, taking a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, for eight-and\nforty hours, because it forebodes accidents by travelling. 62, 19.\n\nACCIDENT. To dream that an accident has happened to you, or to any one\nof your household, or with whom you live, foretells that you will see\nsome one whom you little expect to see. 72, 3, 11.\n\nACCOUNTS. Dreams that relate to making up accounts are good omens. If\nyou dream you found an error in your money account, it foretells that\nyou will have a piece of good luck. Accounts blotted with ink is a sign\nof sickness. 14.\n\nACCUSE. To dream a person accuses you of any thing, is favorable to the\ndreamer. 66, 4.\n\nACORN. (_See Oak._) To dream you see swine eating acorns denotes that\nyou will have reverses in business, and lose if you are not very\ncareful; to dream of picking acorns signifies that a rich relative will\nleave you a fortune. 65.\n\nACQUAINTANCE. To dream you quarrel or fight with an acquaintance,\nforebodes divisions in your own family; in love, unfaithfulness; and\nlosses in business. 42, 6.\n\nACTRESS. If you dream you love her, it is a sign you will meet with\nadversities. If you dream you see her on the stage you will be\nsuccessful in all your undertakings. 68, 5, 18.\n\nADDER. To dream of this reptile is a sign that some one whom you think\nfriendly to you will injure you in some way. 19, 2.\n\nADULTERY. It is in most cases a bad omen to dream that you have\nperpetrated this act. If the person you dreamed about is married, or\nis a prostitute, you may almost be sure that some misfortune will\novertake you. If she is a virgin, it merely predicts that you will\nshortly have an invitation to a wedding. For a married woman to dream\nof adultery is a sign she will soon conceive and have a girl. To an\nunmarried woman such a dream is a sign of misfortune. 51, 7, 3.\n\nAGUE. To dream that you have one, warns you against an inclination to\nstrong drink; to dream your sweetheart has an ague, denotes affection\nand happiness. 39, 6, 1.\n\nAIR. To dream that you see it clear and serene, shows that you shall\nbe beloved and esteemed by most people; if at law, success. In short,\nall good is denoted by clear and serene air. But to dream that the air\nis thick, cloudy, dark, and troubled, denotes to the dreamer, grief,\nsickness, loss of good, hindrance of business, and crosses in love. 12,\n9.\n\nALMONDS. Signify riches and happiness; to eat them shows you will have\ngood luck in love matters. 73, 18, 10.\n\nALLIGATOR. (_See Reptile._)\n\nALMS. To dream they are begged of you, and you refuse them, shows want\nand misery to the dreamer; but to dream you give them freely, is a sign\nof joy and long life. 11, 13, 4.\n\nALTAR. To dream of an altar, betokens gladness, and affection in love.\nOf an _Ark_, the same. 71, 63, 4.\n\nANCHOR. To dream you see one, signifies unexpected success in love; but\nin business, it shows the success to be distant, and only obtainable\nwith care. 47, 36.\n\nANGEL. To dream you see angels in your sleep, is a sign some are near\nyou, and that the rest of your dream will come to pass. To see many\nangels, is a sign of many children, and much prosperity. 16, 8, 24.\n\nANGER. (_See Rage._) To dream that you have been provoked to anger,\nshows that you have powerful enemies; and warns you to be careful that\nall you do should be strictly honorable; but it also signifies you will\nhear good news, and be in a good humor. 44, 16.\n\nANGLING. (_See Fish._)\n\nANTS. To dream of ants, is unlucky; and to dream too often of them,\nshows the dreamer not to be long lived. 7, 49, 20.\n\nAPES. (_See Monkey._) To dream you have seen or had any thing to do\nwith them, signifies malicious, though secret enemies; and warns you\nagainst carrying on law-suits. 17, 6.\n\nAPPARITION. To dream you see an apparition or spirit, clothed in white,\nsignifies deceit, temptation to sin, and disappointment in love. 57.\n\nThe following is an old prediction in verse:\n\n To dream of seeing strange apparitions,\n As devils, hobgoblins, and such visions,\n Does show thy love, or thy sweetheart,\n Hath a fair face, but devil\u2019s heart.\n\nAPPAREL. (_See Silks and Satins._) To dream that your clothes are\ngood, denotes prosperity and happiness; of white apparel, is good only\nfor clergymen; to others it is a sign of trouble; to mechanics, decline\nof business; to the sick, death. If of black, however, it is of their\nrecovery; of rich scarlet apparel, is good for rich men, signifying\nhonor; but is death to the sick, and loss or captivity to the poor; to\ndream of women\u2019s apparel, is good for the unmarried; but to a married\nman loss of his wife or sickness. 17, 20.\n\nAPPLES, or APPLE-TREES. (_See Orchard._) If sweet, denote joy and\npleasure, especially to women and maids. Sour apples signify contention\nand sedition. 4, 11, 44.\n\nAPRICOTS. Content, health, and pleasure, if in season; if otherwise,\nvain hopes, bad fortune. 22, 5, 64.\n\nARMS. To dream your arms are withered or lean, denotes affliction,\nsickness and poverty; and if a woman, she is in danger of being a\nwidow. If any person dream his arms are hairy it denotes increase of\nriches. 7.\n\nARMED MEN. (_See Zouave._)\n\nASHES. Great misfortune is at hand; to a lover or sweetheart, such a\ndream forebodes that he or she will be jealous because of seeing some\none in company with their intended. 70.\n\nASP. To dream of the asp or adder, is a sign of designing enemies; but\nit is good, if they do not bite you. 17, 4.\n\nASS. To dream you hear an ass bray, shows you will meet with some loss;\nto see an ass run, signifies misfortune. 62, 18, 20.\n\nATTORNEYS. (_See Lawyer._) To dream you are speaking with them, shows\nhindrance of business, and that it requires much circumspection to\ninsure success in your affairs. It also denotes loss of property. 16.\n\nAWAKING. To dream you awake yourself is a happy end to all sorrow. To\nawake another is a sign you will inspire with love the one you wish.\n61, 4.\n\nBACK. To dream that your back is broken, hurt, or scabby, shows that\nyour enemies will get the better of you. To dream of the backbone,\nsignifies health and much joy. To see your back denotes misfortune. 2,\n19, 42.\n\nBACKGAMMON. (_See Dice._)\n\nBACON. To dream of bacon or pork, denotes the death of some friend or\nrelation, and that enemies will endeavor to do you a mischief; in love,\nit denotes a disappointment of some kind. 74.\n\nBAGPIPES. To dream of bagpipes, signifies trouble, contention, and loss\nof a lawsuit. 20, 1.\n\nBAKING. (_See Oven._) For a woman to dream she is baking bread,\nforetells thrift. If she is a farmer\u2019s wife, it is a sign of good\ncrops. If she burns her bread it is a sign that she will have a\nmiscarriage. 18, 54.\n\nBALL. (_See Dancing._) If you dream you are at a ball, and are dancing\nwith a lady, it is a sign you will marry her; if you dream that she is\ngone, and you are looking round to find her and cannot, it foretells\nthat she will not live long after marriage. Dreaming of playing ball,\nor seeing it played, foretells the speedy receipt of money; to see the\nball roll about, signifies delay in its reception. 54, 11, 55.\n\nBALLOON. Signifies you will undertake many visionary things in\nbusiness, and success will not attend you. 46.\n\nBANANA. To dream of this delicious fruit is a good omen; if you dream\nyou are eating a banana, it is a sign you will be rich and happy. To\ndream you see bananas growing denotes success in love matters. If a\ngirl dreams that her lover presents her with a ripe banana it foretells\nshe will soon be married, or ought to be. 4, 11, 44.\n\nBANK. If you dream you go to a large bank, and have money there, it is\na sign that you will be poor at some future period of your life. 5, 78.\n\nBANK-BILLS. (_See Money._)\n\nBANKRUPT. A bad dream, your business is in a dangerous position, and\nwithout great care you will be forced to stop. 17, 60, 46.\n\nBARBER. To dream of a barber, denotes losses. 55.\n\nBARN. If you dream that you are in a barn that is well stored with hay\nand grain, it predicts that you will marry rich, or else inherit land.\nIf the barn be empty, it will be the reverse of this, or else you will\nmeet with a loss. 4, 75.\n\nBARKING DOGS. Is a sign you have enemies who will detract, and insult\nyou. 17, 61.\n\nBARRELS. Signify wealth if they appear full; if empty, poverty. 14, 1,\n7.\n\nBASIN. If you dream that it is full money; if empty, you will make many\ndebts. 2, 13, 69.\n\nBATH, or BATHING. To dream you are at a bath where you see people\nbathing, is a sign you will have good luck in some undertaking. If you\nare in, bathing yourself, it predicts that you will confer a benefit\non some person who will be very grateful. This dream also foretells a\nchange of residence. 20, 31.\n\nBAT. To dream of a bat, or bats, is a sign you will go on a bootless\njourney, or one that is not satisfactory. 42.\n\nBATTLE. If you dream you are engaged in a battle, or see a battle, it\nis a sign that you will soon undertake some new enterprise, and will\nleave off the business or calling in which you are then engaged; it\nalso predicts to a girl that she will meet a young man in whom she is\nmuch interested; to a soldier it foretells that he will be advanced in\nrank. 14.\n\nBAYONET. To dream of a bayonet indicates that you have vindictive\nenemies. 64, 7.\n\nBEAM. This signifies you will attain a high position in life. 9.\n\nBEANS. To dream of eating beans is a sign of trouble. If you are\npicking beans, it denotes poverty. 72, 18, 11.\n\nBEAR. To dream of seeing a bear, or bears, is a sign you have one or\nmore enemies; if a bear attacks you, it predicts that you will overcome\nyour enemy. 68.\n\nBEARD. To dream you have a very little beard, signifies suits at law;\nif it is a long thick beard, the dream is a good one, for it shows\nsuccess; for a person to dream of his beard falling out, he will lose\nsome near relative, or will come to disgrace. 47, 3.\n\nBEATING. For married people to dream of beating some one, shows that\nthey will live a peaceful life; to bachelors, good fortune in their\namours; if a lover beats his mistress, or a lady her suitor, it shows\nthat the match will be broken off. 5.\n\nBED. To dream that you are lying in bed, signifies that you are in\ndanger; being in bed and not able to sleep, sickness; to see a stranger\nin your bed, brings quarrels in married life; a well-made bed, shows\nthat you will become established in life. 63, 9.\n\nBED-BUGS. Denote strife, and quarrels. 2, 10.\n\nBEER. To dream you are drinking beer, is a sure sign of domestic\ntroubles. 6, 8.\n\nBEES. (_See Sting._) It is good and lucky to dream of bees; to a\nfarmer it predicts good crops; to a lover, excellent success with his\nsweetheart; to a maid it promises a good and wealthy husband. 17, 62, 4.\n\nBEGGARS. To dream that a beggar annoys you, is a sign of misfortune, or\nsome piece of bad luck. To a young girl who has a suitor, it predicts\nthat if she marries him she will be poor. 26.\n\nBEHEADING. To dream that you see a person that is going to be beheaded,\nor if you see one beheaded, it is an excellent sign; in love you will\nbe successful; in prison you will be released; and any trouble you have\nwill soon vanish; it is also a sign you will soon meet a long absent\nfriend who will be glad to see you. 74, 19, 10.\n\nBELLS. To dream that you hear bells ringing merrily is a sign of a\nwedding, or else that you will soon hear some good news. If the bell\ntolls solemnly, it foretells a funeral or bad news. To a girl, the\ntolling of a bell predicts that some one will deceive her. 16.\n\nBELLY. To dream one\u2019s belly is bigger and fuller than ordinary, shows\nhis family and estate will increase; if one dreams his belly is grown\nlean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of some bad accident;\nif any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet notwithstanding be\nempty, he will become poor; if a girl dreams of a big belly, it is a\nsign of marriage. 24, 77.\n\nBET. To dream that you bet with any one, shows that you will suffer\nfrom your own imprudence. 66, 12, 72.\n\nBIRDS. To dream of birds is much better for the rich than the poor; to\ndream of little birds, the contrary; to dream that you hear birds chirp\nis a good sign; to see birds fighting, signifies adversity; to see\nbirds fly over your head, signifies prejudice by enemies. 14, 77.\n\nBIRDS\u2019 NESTS. To dream that you find one is a good sign; to dream that\nyou find one without either eggs or birds, shows you will meet with\ngreat disappointment. 64.\n\nBIRTH. (_See Still-born._) To dream of a birth is good for a poor man;\nto the sick it denotes death. 18, 42.\n\nBITE. To dream that you are bitten, foretells much jealousy and sorrow.\n15, 19.\n\nBLASPHEMY. If you dream that you are cursing, it foretells bad fortune;\nif you are cursed, all your expectations will be fulfilled. 4, 72.\n\nBLEEDING. (_See Fingers._) To dream of bleeding at the nose signifies\nloss of goods, and decay of riches; to a young girl it foretells the\nloss of her lover. 75, 19, 5.\n\nBLIND. (_See Eye._) To dream of being blind shows that you are deceived\nin a supposed friend; this dream also threatens the dreamer with want\nof money; to a lover, it predicts that his sweetheart is untrue to him;\nthis dream also foretells death. 66.\n\nBLOOD. To dream you vomit blood, is good for him that is poor, for he\nshall soon get a sum of money. It is also very good for him that has\nno children, and whose kindred are in a strange country; the first\nshall see a child of his own; the other will hear favorable news of his\nkindred, or see them returning home. 11, 19.\n\nBLOSSOMS. If you dream you see trees or plants in blossom, it predicts\nthat you will get some money, or some article that you little expected.\nIt also signifies that you will be pleased at something that will soon\nhappen. 43, 14, 7.\n\nBOAT. (_See Oar, and Rudder._) To dream you are sailing in a boat\nin pleasant weather, and enjoying yourself, denotes good success\nin business; to lovers it foretells happiness; if the weather is\nboisterous, it predicts quarrels, which will be speedily settled;\ndreams of sailing smoothly in boats are emphatically good ones to all\nkinds of people. 71, 10.\n\n To dream of being in a boat,\n Does show that maidens\u2019 fancies float;\n And whether sink or swim they do,\n To try love\u2019s sport their skill they\u2019ll show.\n\nBOOKS. To be reading serious books, shows honor and station in life; to\nread lascivious books, shame and disgrace. 4.\n\nBOOTS. (_See Shoes._) To dream of new boots and shoes, indicates\nsweethearts to the single, and friends to the married; old shoes or\nboots show separation, and dirty or old ones are a sign of poverty and\nsorrow. 33.\n\nBOTTLES. To dream of bottles is a good sign; to a man, success in\nbusiness; to a maid, speedy marriage; if they are broken, they signify\nsorrow. 56, 34.\n\nBOUQUET. To receive one, much pleasure; to give one, signifies that\nyour lover is constant. 43, 7.\n\nBOY. If a lady dreams that she is delivered of a boy, her life will be\na pleasant one. 52.\n\nBREAD. (_See Thick._) To dream of bread is an excellent sign. If you\nsee a good deal, the better the dream. It foretells good fortune to\neither man or woman. To lovers it predicts that they will make a good\nmatch and be well off, if not rich. To farmers it promises full and\nabundant crops. 1, 15.\n\nBREAKFAST. To dream that you are eating breakfast shows you will do\nsomething of which you will be sorry. 21, 4.\n\nBRASS. (_See Metals._)\n\nBREAST. (_See Milk._) To dream of breasts, denotes great gain and\nprofit to men; but to a woman, losses. If a young woman dreams that her\nbreasts are full of milk, it signifies she is near her marriage. 76, 1,\n10.\n\nBREWING. To dream of brewing is a sign you should be up and doing; in\nlove, it denotes idleness in your sweetheart; if in trade, you will\nsustain losses. 31.\n\n To dream of brewing and of baking,\n Does signify a match is making,\n Between a maiden and some other,\n Both by her father and her mother.\n\nBRIDGE. To dream you are crossing over a bridge, denotes prosperity in\nlife, and success in love; but to dream you are passing under a bridge,\nindicates difficulties in life, both in love and business; if you meet\nwith obstructions, either on or under the bridge, it foretells illness.\nTo dream a bridge breaks down with you, denotes sudden death. 56, 2.\n\nBRIARS. To dream that you are among briars and get pricked, foretells\nthat you will have an angry dispute with somebody. If a young girl who\nhas a lover dreams it, she will probably get vexed at him. 39, 78.\n\nBROTH. To dream of eating broths, or soups, is a good sign, and denotes\nprofit and gain. 32, 9.\n\nBROTHERS. To dream you see your brothers and sisters, signifies long\nlife to the dreamer, but it portends a death in your family. 24, 8.\n\nBUILDING. To dream of seeing a large building is a sign that you will\nbe introduced to some one with whom you will afterward become intimate.\nTo a young lady it predicts that she will have a new admirer. 17, 25, 1.\n\nBULL. To dream that you have been gored, or received some hurt from\na bull, shows you are likely to receive some harm from a great man.\nTo dream you are pursued by a bull, denotes loss of friends and ill\nreports; if in love, your sweetheart will be in danger, and you will\nnarrowly escape some misfortune. 64, 7.\n\nBURNING. (_See Fire._) To see, in your dream, one or more houses\nburning, but not wholly destroyed, signifies, for the poor, that\nthey will become rich, and for the rich man, that his riches will\nbe augmented; but if the fire is furious, and the houses fall down,\nthe dreamer may expect losses, disappointments, shame, and death. To\ndream you burn yourself is a sign the malice of a stupid enemy will be\nfoiled. Play your age first.\n\nBURIED ALIVE. To dream that you are buried alive denotes that you will\nbe rich and powerful. To wealthy people it is a sign of addition to\ntheir wealth. 11, 14.\n\nBUSINESS. To dream of being full of business, is significant of some\nunexpected good fortune; to finish it, marriage; if the business\nappears to be bad, it is a good sign. 41.\n\nBUTCHER. If, in your dream, you see a butcher killing any animal, it is\na sign of the death of a friend or near relative. If a farmer dreams of\nseeing sheep killed, he will probably have a prolific flock. 73, 33, 16.\n\nBUTTER. If you eat it, you will be surprised by some good fortune, but\nmixed with sadness. 11, 7.\n\nBUTTERMILK. Losses from an extension of business. To the sick it is a\nsign of speedy convalescence. 71.\n\nBUTTERFLIES. To dream you see gaudy butterflies, portends much\nhappiness and luxury. 46, 18.\n\nBUYING. To dream you buy all sorts of things that one uses, is good; to\nbuy that which is only for victuals and relief, is good for the poor;\nbut to the rich it signifies expenses and great charges. 19, 2, 69.\n\nCABBAGE. To dream of cabbage, signifies very bad news from abroad. 16.\n\nCAGE. To dream of letting birds out of a cage, is a sign that you will\nlose something. If a young girl dreams this, it predicts a loss of her\nchastity. 36, 5.\n\nCAKES. (_See Thick._) If a housewife dreams of making round cakes, it\npredicts that her husband will have a good store of luck and will make\nher a present. To dream of eating cakes, is also a favorable dream. 18,\n78.\n\nCALF. To dream of a calf, is a sign of good luck. 14, 1.\n\nCALIFORNIA. If you dream of going there, it predicts to you a\nmisfortune; but if, in your dream, you imagine you are in California,\nand that it is a pleasant country, it foretells that you will receive\na valuable present, or a legacy, or else that you will draw a prize in\nthe lottery. 71, 10, 6.\n\nCANDLES. To dream of lighted candles, is a sign that you will become\nreligious, or will be soon visited by a minister who will tell you good\nnews. To see a candle extinguished, is a sign of a funeral. To light a\ncandle, success in what you undertake. 21, 67, 46.\n\nCANNON. Beware of treacherous friends. To dream you hear a cannon, is a\nsign of sickness or death. 57.\n\nCANNON BALL. To see a cannon ball, denotes misfortune. 6, 2.\n\nCANDY. To dream of candy, is a sign of domestic tranquillity. 47, 8.\n\nCANCER. (_See Abscess._)\n\nCANE. To dream of a cane, is considered a most inauspicious dream; and\nsome authors forbid the dreamer to undertake any business on that day.\n24, 2.\n\nCAP. To put one on, be careful in your love affairs; to take one down,\nshows that that which you wish to hide will be discovered; if you\nreceive a cap you will soon be married. 64, 38.\n\nCARDS. Playing at cards, dice, or any other game in a dream, shows\nthe party will be fortunate in love affairs; for the tables and cards\nallude to love. 76, 17.\n\nCARROTS. To dream of carrots, or parsnips, signifies profit and\nstrength to those who are at law for an inheritance. 10, 35.\n\nCARRIAGE. To dream you ride in a carriage, is a sign of success in\nbusiness and love. If the carriage breaks down, it is a sign you will\nmeet with sudden losses. 31, 67, 3.\n\nCARRYING. To dream that one is carrying another, is better than to\ndream one is carried; to be carried by a woman, a child, or a poor\nperson, means profit and success; by a rich person, the contrary. 4,\n44, 1.\n\nCART. To dream of being tied to a cart to draw like a horse, denotes\nservitude and pain; but to dream that you are carried in a cart, the\ncontrary. 6, 5, 17.\n\nCASH. (_See Money._)\n\nCATS. To see cats is hidden enmity; to be bitten by them, denotes\nmisfortune; to be scratched, care and trouble; to caress them, false\nfriends; to kill one is triumph over your enemies; to dream of cats is\nalso a sign of loss by thieves. 54, 42, 16.\n\nCATERPILLARS. To dream you see caterpillars, denotes misfortune by\nsecret enemies. 71, 77.\n\nCATTLE. (See _Pasture, Pound, and Yoke_.) To dream you see cattle\nfeeding, denotes great prosperity, and unexpected success; to a lover,\nit foretells a happy marriage, with many children; and to a married\nman, it shows that his wife will receive some unexpected legacy; to\ndream you are driving cattle, denotes that you will become rich by\nindustry; if you see fat cattle, it denotes a plentiful year; if you\nsee lean and hungry cattle in your dream, it denotes scarcity and\nfamine. 6, 11, 66.\n\nCAVERN, OR CAVE. (See _Grotto_.)\n\nCELLAR. To dream you are in a cellar, is a sign of sickness and an\nunlucky law suit. 75, 2.\n\nCELLERY. To dream of cellery is a good omen, it portends success in\nbusiness and love. 48, 1.\n\nCHAIN. If you dream of gold chains it is a sign of a wedding; if a\ngirl dreams she is presented with one, it is a sure sign of a speedy\nmarriage. Such a dream to a man in business predicts that he will be\nprevented from doing something that he specially desires to do. 15, 11.\n\nCHAIR. To dream you are sitting on a chair, is a sign you will soon\nhave an increase in your family; if a maiden has this dream it is a\nsign she soon will be married. To dream you are sitting in a rocking\nchair, denotes you will very soon better your condition. 25.\n\nCHARITY. For a rich person to dream that he is charitable, signifies\nloss of fortune; if a lady dreams it, she will bestow her affections on\nan unworthy person. 17, 42, 5.\n\nCHEESE. To dream you eat cheese, signifies profit and gain in trade; in\nlove, deceit. 65, 3.\n\nCHEMISE. (See _Smock and Shifts_.)\n\nCHESS. To play at, denotes gain by lying and deceit; to see another\nplay, loss by craftiness. Anselmus Julianus regarded this dream\nas indicative of the success which would attend the dreamer in his\nundertaking, according to his fancied success in his dream. 8, 78.\n\nCHESTNUTS. To dream you are eating raw chestnuts, shows you will be\nfortunate in love affairs. Boiled chestnuts, signifies you will be\nfortunate in business. To dream you prick your hand with a chestnut\nburr, is a sign your confidence will be abused by a pretended friend.\n7, 18.\n\nCHERRIES. To dream of ripe cherries foretells that you will hear good\nnews, or that some one will do you a favor. After such a dream you can\neasily borrow money if you wish to. If the cherries are green or mixed,\nyour news will be a mixture of good and bad. 14, 54.\n\nCHICKEN. To dream of a hen, or chicken, signifies losses in trade, and\ndeceit in love. 19.\n\nCHILD. (_See Boy._) Dreaming of children is a good omen. If a Woman\ndreams she is about to have a child, it foretells a rich legacy or\nother good fortune: if she is a maid that has this dream, she must be\non her guard, or she will lose her virtue. 5, 56.\n\nCHIMNEY. To dream of sitting in the chimney corner, to a maid, shows\nspeedy marriage; if there is a fire burning brightly, you will become\nheir to some money. 61.\n\nCHOCOLATE. To dream of chocolate, signifies trouble, brought about by\ngossiping. 47, 15.\n\nCHRISTENING. To dream that you are present at a christening, is a good\nsign, you will get what you hope for; to a maid, it signifies that she\nwill soon be married. 70, 50, 1.\n\nCHURCH. To dream one is at church, and praying there, signifies joy and\ncomfort. To dream of singing in church, is a dream of bad consequence.\n13, 6.\n\nCHURCHYARD. To dream of a churchyard, is a sign you will have a long\nand happy life. 76.\n\nCLAMS. To a lover, this dream is a sign he will be successful with his\nsweetheart; if the clams are large, it signifies he will get through\nthe world easy, but if they are small he may get into difficulties, and\nbe caught in a tight place. 49, 24.\n\nCLIMB. If you dream of climbing, it is a sign you will have some\ndignity conferred upon you, or that your circumstances in life will\nimprove. To unmarried people it predicts that they will marry above\ntheir station. 4, 19.\n\nCLOCK. To dream you hear the clock strike, denotes speedy marriage; if\nyou dream the clock falls or breaks, it denotes danger. To dream of\ncounting the hours of the forenoon, is lucky; the afternoon, unlucky.\n72, 3, 12.\n\nCLOUDS. To dream of white clouds, signifies prosperity, clouds mounting\nhigh from the earth, denotes voyages, the return of the absent, and\nrevealing of secrets; clouds red and inflamed, show an ill-issue of\naffairs; dark and obscure clouds, obstructions in love 47, 8.\n\nCLOTHING. (_See Apparel._)\n\nCOAL. To dream you see dead coal, signifies expedition in business; but\nto dream you see burning coal, threatens you with shame and reproach.\n12.\n\nCOACH. (_See Carriage._)\n\nCOCK. (_See Rooster._) To dream you see a cock in the house, is a\ngood sign to those who would marry; to hear a cock crow denotes great\nprosperity. 19, 10.\n\nCOFFEE. To dream of coffee, signifies loss of reputation. For a young\ngirl to have such a dream, predicts the loss of her virtue. 39, 17.\n\nCOFFIN. To dream of one, denotes the death of a friend, or some near\nrelation. 74, 6.\n\nCOMEDY. To dream you see a comedy, or farce, is a good omen. To the\nbusiness man it betokens success, and to the maiden a speedy marriage\nto the one she loves. 22.\n\nCONCERT. To dream of being at a concert, foretells the enjoyment of\ngood health; to the sick, recovery. 12, 22.\n\nCOMMAND. To dream you command any one, shows trouble; to dream you see\none command, signifies anger and authority. 14, 62, 7.\n\nCOOK. To dream you see a cook in the house, is good to those who would\nmarry, and to the poor; but it is also the revealing of secrets; to\ndream of cooking, is also a sign of a wedding. 6, 34.\n\nCOPPER. (_See Metals._)\n\nCORN. To dream that you see corn eared, and gather it, signifies profit\nand riches; to dream that you see stacks of corn, signifies wealth and\nabundance to the dreamer; and on the contrary, to see a small quantity,\ndenotes poverty. 69.\n\nCORNS. For a man to dream his flesh is full of corns, shows he will\ngrow rich proportionably to his corns. 70, 12.\n\nCORPSE. (_See Shroud._) To dream you see a corpse, is a sign of long\nlife. 39, 11.\n\n Dreams of rivers, ships and horses,\n Of snow and frost, and of dead corpses,\n Are signs by which it may be read,\n Your sweetheart\u2019s love is cold or dead.\n\nCOWS. If you dream of seeing large herds of cows, it predicts\nprosperity and wealth. To see one cow in your dream is a sign of a good\npiece of luck of some kind. If a young girl dreams of cows, it is a\nsign she will marry a rich man, and have numerous children. 4, 26, 1.\n\nCRABS, signify you will quarrel with a friend. To the married, this\ndream is a sign of separation. 49, 19.\n\nCRIMINAL. (_See Reprieve._) To dream that you are a criminal, shows\nthat disgrace and danger are in store for you. 9, 61.\n\nCRADLE. To dream you are rocking a cradle, is a good omen, and\nsignifies a long and prosperous life. To the married, it is a sign of\ndomestic happiness, and to the single a sign of speedy marriage with\nthe object of their affection. To dream you upset a cradle, portends\nsickness or a loss in business. 46, 5.\n\nCROCODILE. (_See Reptile._) To dream of a crocodile, signifies pirates\nor robbers by sea, or deceitful persons, and troubles. 18, 2.\n\nCROSS. To dream you see a cross, signifies sadness. 68.\n\nCROW. A crow indicates expedition in business, adultery, or a thief; if\ncroaking, an ill omen; if it flies on to the head of a child, the child\nwill be in great danger of a misfortune. 74, 6.\n\nCROWN. To dream a golden crown is placed upon your head, foretells that\nsuccess and great honor await you; if the crown be silver, you will\nenjoy good health; if crowned with green leaves, friends and fortune\nwill forsake you. 52, 6, 13.\n\nCRYING. (_See Weeping._)\n\nCRUTCHES. If you dream you use them, your love will forsake you; if you\nonly see them, some infirmity will press upon you; if you break them,\nyou will recover from sickness. 46, 19.\n\nCUCUMBERS. To dream of these vegetables, signifies that your business\nwill not be very prosperous; for a sick person to dream of them,\nforetells a speedy recovery. 16, 8.\n\nCURRANTS. Red currants denote happiness in life, and success in love.\nWhite currants portend that your partner will fall into difficulties,\nand will have a long illness. 12, 5, 60.\n\nDAGGER. To dream of a dagger, you may expect news of absent persons,\nand your dearest hope will be fulfilled. 9.\n\nDAHLIA. To dream of these flowers, is a sign of thrift. If a lady\ndreams of them, it foretells that her husband will make money rapidly.\nTo a young girl, it predicts the same of her lover. 19, 20, 12.\n\nDAIRY. To dream you are in a dairy, busy at work, is a very favorable\nomen; to the maid it indicates that her lover will be of an industrious\nturn and will rise to honor. To the farmer, it denotes that his crops\nwill be abundant; to the tradesman, good news. 71, 2.\n\nDANCING. (_See Ball._) To dream you are dancing at a ball or\nentertainment, foretells that you will shortly receive joyful news;\nit also foretells success and happiness in love. To see others dance\nthere, signifies pleasure and an inheritance. 55, 27.\n\nDANGER. To dream of being in danger, shows success in life; to shun it,\nmisfortune. (_See Difficulty._) 27, 17.\n\nDARKNESS. To dream you are in a dark place, is an unfavorable omen;\nto the lovers it denotes, loss of sweethearts, to the trader, loss of\ngoods; but to dream of getting out of darkness into light, is good; if\nyou are in poverty, it foretells riches; if in love, a happy marriage.\n4, 16.\n\nDATES. Dates denote many enemies, and you will receive much injury by a\nperson you little expect. 6, 44.\n\nDAY. To dream of a clear, sunshiny day, portends long life and\nhappiness, but to dream of a dark, cloudy, and stormy day, is an\nunlucky omen. 3, 33, 9.\n\nDAYBREAK. Good fortune in every thing you undertake. 64, 7.\n\nDEATH. To dream you see death, denotes happiness and long life; that\nyou will be either speedily married yourself, or assist at a wedding.\nTo dream you see another person dead, denotes hasty news from friends.\n61, 4.\n\nDEBT. To dream of paying a debt with money, foretells that you will\nsoon receive some. If you imagine that you owe a debt, and are worrying\nto get the money to pay, it is a sign of sickness. 18, 64.\n\nDEEDS. To sign your name to deeds, is a bad sign; to a man, loss in\nbusiness; to a woman, the inconstancy of her lover. 7, 8.\n\nDEER. If you see these animals in your dream, it shows that you will\nhear some unexpected news\u2014no matter what\u2014perhaps a marriage, a death,\nan accident, or a legacy has been left to you; or that some one is in\nlove with you. 12.\n\nDEVIL. To dream of this enemy to the human race, denotes that many\ndangers threaten you, all of which you will overcome if you carefully\nwithstand all temptations to do evil; in love it forebodes loss of the\naffections; in trade, opposition; to dream you are pursued by an evil\nspirit, is also a bad omen. 61, 18.\n\nDIAMONDS. To dream you wear a diamond, denotes that you will be crossed\nin love, and that your lover is unfaithful. For a man of business to\ndream that he is dealing in diamonds, is good, it is a sure thing with\nhim, that he will become wealthy, and retire to private life much\nrespected. 33, 3.\n\nDICE. To dream you are playing at dice, backgammon, or draughts,\ndenotes much good to the dreamer, in either love, marriage, or\nbusiness. To a young girl, engaged to be married, dreaming of dice\nforetells that her lover will be wild and not of much account. 54.\n\nDIFFICULTY. If you imagine in your dream that you are in great\ndifficulty, or in personal danger of any kind, it is a favorable sign,\nas such dreams always go by contrary. 17, 27.\n\nDIGGING. To dream of digging in clean and healthy ground, is a sign\nof thrift, and good luck generally: if the ground be dirty or wet, it\nshows trouble: if you are digging for gold, and find large and rich\nlumps, it shows you\u2019ll have some good luck, but if the product is\nmeagre, or if you don\u2019t find any, it foretells disappointment. If you\nlose any of your tools it is a sign of a quarrel. 14, 71.\n\nDINNER. If you dream of sitting down to dinner with a large company, it\nis a sign you will either go a journey, or change the present location\neither of your dwelling or business. 76, 11.\n\nDIRT. To dream of dirty dirt or mud, signifies that some one will speak\nill of you. If it is clean sand or soil, and you do not get befouled\nwith it, it is a sign of thrift and good fortune. If some one throws\ndirt on you, it foretells that you will be abused. 22, 41.\n\nDISEASE. If you dream you have any contagious or foul disease on you,\nit foretells luck and benefit, as such a dream goes by contrary. 18, 2.\n\nDITCHES. To dream of ditches, steep mountains, rocks, and other\neminences, foretells danger and misfortune: expect thieves to rob your\ndwelling, or that your children will be undutiful, and bring you into\ntrouble; if you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if you marry\nyour present sweetheart: if you are in trade, it denotes loss of goods,\nand other trouble: to farmers, it foretells accidents to their live\nstock, loss of sheep, &c. 73, 8.\n\nDOGS. (_See Mad Dog._) To dream of those animals, has very different\nsignifications; if they fawn and fondle upon you, it is a lucky omen;\nif you are in love, it portends marriage and happiness; but if they\nbark and snarl at you, it denotes that enemies are endeavoring to\ndestroy your reputation and happiness; if in love, crosses. 17, 61.\n\nDOLL. If a girl dreams she has a new doll with which she is greatly\npleased, it foretells a disappointment. 61.\n\nDOLPHINS. To dream of seeing these beautiful fishes playing in the\nwater, denotes the death of some dear friend or relative. 5, 4.\n\nDOMESTICS. (_See Servants._) To dream of having a great number of\nservants, is illness. 71, 11.\n\nDOORS. To dream you knock at a door, and gain admittance, shows\nsuccess in your undertakings; if you cannot obtain entrance, it shows\ndisappointment. 16, 9.\n\nDOVE. To dream you see these emblems of love, denotes good fortune to\nthe dreamer. 36.\n\nDROWNING. (_See Water and Resuscitate._) To dream you are drowning,\nor that you see another drowned, portends good to the dreamer; to the\nlover, good-tempered sweethearts and marriage; but to a girl it is a\nsign she should keep an eye on her lover. 54, 18, 1.\n\nDREAMS. (_See Sleep._) To dream you relate your dreams to any one,\nshows something unlooked for will take place. 41, 18.\n\nDROUGHT. For a farmer or planter to dream of seeing his grass or crops\ndrying up for want of rain, denotes that an accident will happen to him\nor his property during a storm, or that some of his live stock will die\nor meet an accident. 12.\n\nDRINK. To dream you drink cold water, is good to all; hot, sickness and\nhindrance; wine, is good; sweet wine, success in love; oil, sickness;\nfrom vessels of gold, or silver, or earthenware, intends tranquillity;\nof horn, implies good; glass, evil. 67.\n\n If maids do dream of drawing drink\n In cellars, they may waking think,\n That their sweethearts without delay,\n Will leave them, and soon run away.\n\nDRUM. To dream you hear the rolling of a drum signifies that you will\nbe called away from your home or business unexpectedly. If you see\nsoldiers marching when you hear the drum, it shows that though you may\nnot have to leave, yet you will receive an unexpected message that will\ncause you trouble or excitement. 49.\n\nDRUNKENNESS. To dream you are drunk, is loss in business; but success\nin love; to a woman, it denotes she will be beloved by a stranger; and\nto a man that he will be married to a rich young widow. To the married\nit denotes domestic bliss. To see a drunken man, shows that you will be\nguilty of some foolish action. 18, 20.\n\nDUCK. To hear ducks quacking, or to see these fowls in your dream,\ndenotes that somebody is coming to see you who is hungry, or that you\nwill shortly have a visitor in your family who will stop to dinner. 73,\n1.\n\nDUET. To dream you sing a duet with a lady shows that you can win her\nif you desire. To dream you sing with a man shows you have a secret\nbut powerful enemy, and is a sign you will never marry. To hear a duet\ndenotes business troubles. 50, 51.\n\nDUMB. If you dream that you are dumb, or that any of your speaking\nfriends are so afflicted, it foretells sickness or misfortune. But\nshould you dream that a deaf mute of your acquaintance speaks, it\nforetells joy and gladness at something that will happen. 14.\n\nDUN. If you are troubled in your dreams by imagining that people\nare dunning you for money, it is a sure sign you will get some\nunexpectedly. 41.\n\nDUST. If you dream you are in a room or in the road where the dust is\nflying so as to choke you, it shows that some one is plotting to injure\nyou in some way or to make a speculation out of you. 64, 2.\n\nDWARF. Should a single lady dream she sees a very small man or Dwarf,\nit indicates that her husband will be a very large man, or have a great\nintellect. If a single man has this dream it is a sign he will marry a\nscold. For married people to dream of dwarfs shows that their children\nwill give them much trouble.\n\nEAGLES. To dream you see an eagle soaring very high in the air, denotes\nprosperity, riches and honors: to the lover, it foretells success in\nlove and marriage. 48.\n\nEARS. To dream of boring many ears denotes obedience and readiness;\nto dream of cleansing them, good news; of having your ears boxed, ill\nnews; of having large ears, prosperity and honor; of being hurt or\nslit, offence and treachery; of loss of ears, loss of friendship; of\nloss of hearing, betrayal of secrets; and to a woman, ruin. 3, 19.\n\nEAR-RINGS. To dream of purchasing a pair of ear-rings is a good dream\nto the fair sex; to widows and maids they signify marriage; to those\nthat have no children, that they shall have children; and to those that\nhave husbands and children, purchases and riches; for as women are\nprovided with these deckings, so shall they be stored with husbands,\nchildren, and goods. 32.\n\nEARTHQUAKES. Change of estate, injuries, death; to see a town destroyed\nby, famine, war, and desolation. 17.\n\nEATING. If you dream of eating a good meal with a relish, it foretells\ngood crops to a farmer, and successful business to any one. 70, 14.\n\nECLIPSE. For one to dream he sees the sun in eclipse, signifies the\nloss of his father; if he sees the moon eclipsed, it denotes the death\nof his mother; but if he has neither father nor mother, then it denotes\nthe death of a relation. 8.\n\nEELS. To dream of catching or handling eels, denotes that you will have\ngood fortune, but difficulty. If the eels slip through your hands and\nescape from you, it shows that you will experience a loss. 41, 6.\n\nEGGS. (_See Rotten._) If married people dream of eggs it is a sign they\nwill be prolific of children. If a newly married lady dreams of finding\na nest full of eggs, it foretells that her first born will be twins\nor triplets. If a young girl dreams such a dream, it is a sign that\nshe will soon be married, or get in a condition that she ought to be a\nwife. 4, 47.\n\nELDERBERRIES. To dream of elderberries augurs content and riches: to\na maiden they bespeak a speedy marriage; to a married woman, that she\nwill shortly be with child; to the tradesman, success in business; to\nthe farmer, good crops. 30, 33.\n\nELEPHANT. To dream of an elephant is a very fortunate dream, for it\ndenotes an acquirement of riches: if you are in love, it foretells a\nspeedy marriage with your sweetheart, and many children, chiefly boys,\nwho will distinguish themselves by their learning. 33.\n\nELOPEMENT. For a young girl to dream she elopes with her beau, is\na sign her parents will give their consent and she will soon be\nmarried to the one she loves. If a man dreams that he elopes with his\nsweetheart, it portends that he will be \u202f\u201c_cut out_\u201d by a stranger. 4,\n44, 8.\n\nENEMY. If you dream that some one is trying to injure you, or that\na person who you know is your enemy endeavors to work to your\ndisadvantage, it foretells good fortune and success. Such dreams always\ngo by contrary, and you may calculate a benefit just in proportion to\nthe injury you dream you are about to sustain. 69, 78.\n\nENTRAILS. This is a good dream for the poor, but to the rich it\nportends loss of riches. To sweethearts and beaus it shows that they\nwill be happy in their loves. 10, 20.\n\nEMBRACE. To dream of embracing relatives is a warning of treachery; if\nfriends, disappointments; if one unknown embrace you, you will travel;\nthe embrace of a woman brings good luck. 3, 11, 33.\n\nERRAND. To dream that you are sent of an errand, signifies great loss\nto the married; to the lover it denotes success in his pursuits, and\nthat he will shortly marry a very amiable and accomplished maiden. 39.\n\nEXECUTION. (_See Hanged and Gallows._) To dream of seeing a man hanged\ndenotes that some friend or relative will shortly come to good fortune.\nIf you dream that you yourself are going to be hanged, you may safely\ncalculate on good luck for that year: if you are in business you will\nbe successful. 7, 6, 10.\n\nEYE. (_See Squinting and Blind._) If you dream you see a person with\na defective eye, it denotes disappointment: to see a glaring squint\neye in your dream, shows that you will be defeated or crossed in some\nenterprise. To dream that your own eyes are defective, or squint, is a\nsure sign of bad luck: sore eyes denote sickness: blindness, death, or\ndeception. 66, 49, 78.\n\nEYEBROWS. Thick eyebrows are a sign of friends; thin, ill-will and\nvexation; black, good luck. 18.\n\nFACE. To dream that your face is swelled, indicates an augmentation\nof wealth and honor; but if it grows pale or emaciated, you will be\nseverely disappointed. Of a fresh smiling face, friendship and joy;\nblack face, long life; washing, repentance. 5, 11, 55.\n\nFACTION OR SEDITION. Denotes health, and trouble, and shame. 16, 10.\n\nFAINTING. To dream you see a person fainting indicates that you will\nsoon hear of the death of a dear friend. 64.\n\nFAIR. To dream you are at a fair, is a bad omen; it denotes that some\npretended friend is about to do you an injury; if you are in trade,\nkeep a keen look out, for some swindler will certainly attempt to\ndefraud you. 31, 15.\n\nFAIRY. If you dream of seeing a fairy, you will meet a woman, who will\nseduce you from the path of propriety, and make your life vexatious. 2,\n22.\n\n To dream of blust\u2019ring storms of wind,\n Does show inconstancy of mind;\n But if you dream of elves and fairies,\n Beware the girls and night-vagaries.\n\nFALL. To dream you are falling from an eminence, shows you will have\nsome dignity conferred upon you, or else will marry above your sphere.\nIf a young girl dreams this, it is a sign she will marry a rich\nhusband. 65, 70.\n\nFAMILY. If a man or woman dreams that they have a large family, it is a\nsign of thrift and riches. Such a dream is a lucky one to anybody. 18,\n41.\n\nFAMINE. If a farmer dreams that his crops have failed, or of any\nscarcity of food, it shows that there will be a quarrel, which, though\nit may not be among his people, yet he will witness or hear about it,\nand it will worry him. 34, 8, 26.\n\nFAN. To dream you see your sweetheart fanning herself, signifies that\na stranger will step in some fine day and \u202f\u201ccut you out.\u201d If a maid\ndreams that her beau presents her with a fan, or offers to fan her, it\nis a sign he will attempt to take improper liberties with her. 41, 18.\n\nFAREWELL. To say farewell, or to hear another say it, is a bad sign,\nyou will hear painful news. 45, 9.\n\nFARM. (_See Land._) If a man dreams he has a good farm, well enclosed,\nwith pleasant pastures, bestowed upon him, he will have a handsome\nwife; but if the land seems spacious, and not enclosed, that denotes\npleasure, joy, and riches. To dream you are working on a farm, denotes\nyou will soon receive a legacy from a distant relative. 42.\n\nFAST. (_See Hungry._) To dream of fasting, or going without food until\nyou are very hungry, is a sign of a quarrel; but it foretells success\nin love and business. 29, 7.\n\nFAT. To dream you are growing fat, if you are a married woman,\nsignifies you will soon have a son; to a maiden, it signifies she will\nsoon be engaged; to men, it is a sign of success in business. To dream\nyou are cutting or eating fat, portends sickness and misfortune. 66, 3.\n\nFATHER. To dream you see your father, is fortunate; to see him die, is\nunlucky and portends sickness. 28.\n\nFATIGUE. To dream you are very much fatigued, portends that you will be\nsuccessful in business, but it is a sign of sickness. 4, 78.\n\nFAULT. If you dream you commit a fault, be very careful in your\nconduct; if you see a fault in a lady who is very dear to you, should\nyou trust her, she will be faithful to you in every thing. 22, 13, 27.\n\nFAVOR. If you dream that you ask a favor of a friend, and he grants it,\nit foretells that he has been talking about you; but if he refuses it,\nit shows that some other person has spoken ill of you to him. 16, 71.\n\nFEAR. To feel fear, signifies that you will be courageous in your\nwaking moments; to dream of frightening others, shows that your courage\nis weak. 68.\n\nFEAST. If you dream of feasting at a friend\u2019s house, or eating with him\nanywhere, it shows you will make a new acquaintance through his means.\nIf a girl dreams this, it is a sign she will soon have a lover from\nthat very house or place where she dreams of feasting. 76, 18.\n\nFEET. (_See Corns._) To dream of washing your feet, denotes trouble of\nsome kind; of scratching or tickling the soles of your feet, shows that\nyou will be flattered by some one to your disadvantage; dreaming of\ndirty feet predicts sickness or trouble; if, in your dream, you imagine\nyour feet are covered with corns, you will have great riches. 51.\n\nFESTER. Dreaming that you have a fester on your hand, or fingers, is a\nsign that you will give somebody a present; if on your feet, or legs,\nit shows you will go to see some one who will be glad to see you. 76,\n14.\n\nFIDDLE. If you dream that you are playing on a fiddle, or hearing the\nmusic of one, it is a sign you will soon attend a funeral. Such a dream\nis a bad omen to girls, as it points to the death of a lover, or of\nsome dear friend. 61.\n\nFIELDS. (_See Meadow and Green._) To dream you are in a ploughed field,\nforebodes some severe disputes that will be brought upon you by some\nperson who has no children; to dream you are in a meadow covered with\nflowers, is a very handsome wife, who will bring you lovely children\nand make you very happy; to a woman, it denotes that she will marry a\nhandsome young fellow, by whom she will have beautiful children, that\nthey will become rich, and live to a good old age. 16, 72, 6.\n\nFIFE. For a girl to dream she hears the shrill music of a fife, is\na sign she will soon have a beau, and that he will be a smart and\ndesirable young man. 77, 5.\n\nFIGS. To dream of eating good figs, signifies joy and happiness; if\nthe figs are mouldy or defective, your pleasure will be marred by some\ndisagreeable event. 6, 29.\n\nFIGHT. If you dream of being engaged in a fight, it foretells to a man\nof business that he will soon engage in some new enterprise that will\nbe successful; to a laboring man, it predicts increased pay. 44, 78.\n\nFIGURES. Any number above _one_, and below _seventy-eight_, is deemed\nto portend good fortune to the dreamer, but _forty-nine_ is the most\nlucky. All numbers above _seventy-eight_ are uncertain, except _three\nhundred and forty-three_, and that is a very lucky number. 49, 10, 13.\n\nFINGERS. To dream that you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very\ngood omen; you will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will\nprove kind and true. 1, 2.\n\nFIRE. (_See Burning._) If in your dream, you see a house on fire other\nthan your own, it foretells that some event will happen to make you\nmelancholy and sorrowful, such as the death or ruin of some esteemed\nfriend. If you dream your own house or place of business is burning, it\nis an omen of good fortune. If you dream of playing with fire, it is a\nsign of a quarrel in bed. For this dream play your age first. 26.\n\n To dream of sitting by the fire,\n When it is late, doth show desire;\n But if you sit till the fire\u2019s out,\n Your love will prove false out of doubt.\n\nFIRE-ARMS. (_See Gun, Pistol, and Cannon._)\n\nFISH. To dream of catching fish is a sign of excellent good fortune,\nparticularly if you haul up large ones; if the fish fall off your\nhook, it predicts troublesome fortune. If you dream of fishing without\ncatching any, it shows that you will fail in some undertaking or\nspeculation; and to a lover it is a sign that he will get the mitten.\nTo dream that you see an abundance of fish, foretells the receipt of\nmoney, or success in collecting it. 14, 71.\n\nFLAG. To dream you see a flag waving, betokens great danger from\nenemies, or sickness. To dream you carry a flag, signifies you will\nreceive some mark of distinction from your fellow-citizens. If a\nmaid dream she is making a flag, it is a sign she will marry a rich\nofficer in the Army or Navy; but if a married woman has this dream, it\nforetells the birth of a son who will become a great general. 13, 35,\n61.\n\nFLEAS. To dream you are tormented with these little insects, is of an\nunfavorable kind; evil and malicious enemies will do you much injury;\nyour sweetheart will prove false. 45.\n\nFLIES. To dream of a swarm of flies, denotes that you have many\nenemies; it also denotes that your sweetheart is not sincere, and cares\nbut little about you; to dream you kill them is a very good omen; it\ndenotes success in love and trade. 21, 49.\n\nFLOOD. (_See Overflow._) To dream of a flood, generally denotes riches\nand plenty, particularly if the water is calm, it shows that though you\nmay lose something, you will be fortunate in other ways sufficient to\ncounterbalance it. 2, 66, 9.\n\nFLOUR. (_See Mill._) To dream that you buy flour is a bad omen, and\nportends sickness, or the death of a near friend. 41.\n\nFLOWERS. (_See Blossom._) To dream you are gathering flowers, is a very\nfavorable omen: expect to thrive in every thing you undertake, and\nthat you will be successful in love, marry happily, and have beautiful\nchildren; should the flowers wither under your hands, it foretells\nheavy losses in trade; that your sweetheart will die; or if you are\nmarried, that you will lose your husband or wife, or perhaps your\nfavorite child. 14, 7, 43.\n\nFLUTE. To dream you play or hear playing on a flute, signifies trouble\nand contention with your friends. 47, 8.\n\n If your kind fancy you present\n With playing on an instrument,\n Your sweetheart shall not you disdain,\n But yield true love for love again.\n\nFLYING. To dream you are flying is a very excellent omen; if you are in\nlove, your sweetheart will be true to you; and if you marry, you will\nhave many children, who will all do very well and be happy. 35.\n\nFORK. To dream of a fork indicates that a false friend will attempt\nyour ruin by flattery. 69.\n\nFORTUNE. If you dream that some one told your fortune, you may\ncalculate every thing will go pretty nearly the reverse of what was\nassured to you: if you were promised money you will get poverty, and\n_vice versa_. To dream of making a sudden fortune is a sign of want.\nAll dreams of this kind go by the rule of contrary. 76, 8, 4.\n\nFOUNTAIN. To dream you are at a fountain, is a favorable omen; if the\nwater is clear, it denotes riches and honors; and in love, it foretells\nhappiness in marriage; but if muddy, it denotes vexation and trouble.\n71, 20, 18.\n\nFOX. A sign of thieves; to dream of fighting with them, shows that\nyou will have to deal with some cunning enemy; to keep a tame fox,\nsignifies that you will love a lewd woman, or have a bad servant, who\nwill rob you. A number of foxes, false friends. 11, 17.\n\nFREE MASON. To dream you are a free mason denotes you will soon make\na number of new friends who will treat you on the square, it also\nforetells you will take a journey to the east. If you are already a\nmember of that celebrated Order, and dream you attend a meeting of the\nlodge it portends sickness, and a heavy loss of property, to dream you\nare expelled from the Order shows you will attain a higher station in\nlife. 2, 78.\n\nFROG. If you dream of seeing a large frog, or a number of frogs, or of\nhearing frogs croak, it is a good omen as regards your health. To dream\nof catching frogs alive, without killing them, foretells some piece\nof good fortune; but if you kill them it is a sign some accident will\nbefall you. 22, 3.\n\nFRUIT. To dream of fruit which is ripe and fair to look upon is an\nexcellent omen, as it foretells the most perfect success in all worldly\nmatters: if the fruit is green or defective, it indicates trouble with\nyour success. If you dream of eating fruit that proves to be sour or\nrotten, it shows disappointment: if a young girl dreams this, it is a\nsign that her lover will deceive her. 32.\n\nFUNERAL. To dream of attending a funeral shows that you will probably\nbe soon at a wedding or some gay party. If, in your dream, you see\na funeral pass, it denotes a pleasure party out of doors, such as a\npic-nic or excursion. 18, 1.\n\nFUR. To dream of fur signifies much good; it denotes that your\nsweetheart is kind and true, and that if you marry, you will be very\nhappy; it denotes to the merchant a good establishment in business, to\nthe sailor a profitable voyage. 61, 78.\n\nGAG. If you dream that your mouth is stopped by a gag, it denotes that\nyou will soon thereafter be kissed by a pretty girl. To a young girl,\nsuch a dream predicts that she will see some gentleman who takes her\nfancy, and perhaps will fall in love with him. 13.\n\nGAIN. If acquired justly, you may hope for wealth; if by injustice, you\nwill lose your fortune. 33, 14.\n\nGALLOWS. (_See Execution and Hanged._) To dream of a gallows is a\ngood omen, as it denotes that you will have a chance to make money,\nand if you are smart enough to avail yourself of the opportunity, it\nwill be all right. To those embarking in new enterprises, such a dream\nforetells success. 10, 7, 6.\n\nGAMBLING. (_See Raffling._) To dream of gambling is a sign of poverty\nand disgrace. If, in your dream, you see others gamble, and do not\nengage in it yourself, it shows that some of your friends or relatives\nwill have a reverse of fortune and become poor. 8, 44.\n\nGARDEN. To see a beautiful and thrifty garden in your dream, denotes\ngood luck and abundance: if the garden is run to weeds, you may still\nhave luck, but much trouble and vexation will accompany it: if you see\nrats or pigs in the garden, it denotes thieves to annoy you. 31, 17.\n\nGARLIC. For a man to dream he eats garlic, signifies he shall discover\nhidden secrets, and meet with some domestic jars; yet to dream he has\nit in the house is good. 6, 11, 66.\n\nGARTER. This is a good dream to the lover, as it signifies he will soon\nbe united to his sweetheart. To the married this dream portends much\ndomestic trouble from jealousy. 4, 16.\n\nGAS. If you dream of bright and pleasant gas-lights, it shows success\nin love matters. If the gas is dim and looks unnatural, your beau or\nsweetheart will either leave you, or die. 36.\n\nGEESE. To dream of these birds is generally a good omen: if you\nsee them quietly feeding it denotes success and pleasure in your\nundertakings; but if they are alarmed and cackling, it foretells\ntrouble and annoyance, but yet nothing that will seriously affect you.\n15, 69.\n\nGHOST. (_See Apparition._)\n\nGIANT. If a lady dreams of seeing a very large man, or giant, and if\nshe is pleased with his appearance, it shows that her future husband\nwill be a small fellow, or else a man of small intellect: if she is\ndisgusted with the giant, it is a sign that she will marry such a man\nherself, or else a man of great mind. For married people to dream of\ngiants shows a prospect of smart children. 31, 4.\n\nGIFT. (_See Present._) To dream that a friend presents you with a\nvaluable gift, predicts that you will lose something. If a girl dreams\nthat her lover gives her a present, it is a sign that she will allow\nhim the husband\u2019s privilege before marriage. 64, 21.\n\nGIG. To dream of riding alone in a gig, denotes delay, and that\nsomething you expected to happen will be put off: if you imagine you\nride in a gig with your sweetheart, it foretells that your marriage day\nwill be postponed, or will be far distant. 46, 1.\n\nGIN. To dream of this liquor is a sign of poverty and disgrace: if you\nimagine you are drinking it, it foretells that you will lose money or\nproperty by some foolish act of your own. 74, 78.\n\nGIPSY. If you dream of these wandering vagrants, it foretells that\nyou will have trouble of some kind\u2014either a vexatious loss, or else\nsomething will happen to worry you: to dream that a gipsy tells your\nfortune, shows that some one will rob you. 16, 57.\n\nGLASS. To dream of receiving a glass of water, signifies that you will\nsoon be married; if you break it, your lover will forsake you. 11, 64.\n\nGLOBE. To dream you are looking at a globe, foretells much good, and\nthat you will be a great traveller. 19.\n\nGLOVES. To dream of wearing good gloves, brings happiness; if the\ngloves are torn, many disappointments. To the lover this dream is a\nsign he will get the mitten from his sweetheart. 25, 9.\n\nGOAT. If you dream of seeing goats on a high place in a mountain, it\nshows that riches or honors await you: if the goats are merely on the\nroad, or in a building, it predicts good luck. 64, 34.\n\nGOGGLES. To dream that you are wearing these glasses to protect the\neyes, is a sign that you will see something disagreeable. If a lover\ndreams such a dream, he will be apt to see some young fellow making\nlove, or saying soft things, to his sweetheart. 45, 3.\n\nGOLD. (_See Metals, also Money._) To dream of receiving gold, is a\nvery good omen: it denotes success in your present undertakings, after\nexperiencing some little difficulties. If you pay gold, it betokens\nincrease of friends and business. 49, 7.\n\nGOLD-FISH. To dream of these beautiful fish is a sign of good fortune\ngenerally: if you dream of catching a large one, it foretells that you\nwill soon get a large sum of money: any kind of a dream about these\nfish is lucky. 20, 6.\n\nGOOSEBERRIES. To dream of gooseberries indicate many children, chiefly\nsons, and the accomplishment of your present pursuits. To the maiden\nthey foretell a cheerful husband; they also denote happiness in\nmarriage, and success in trade. 19, 8.\n\nGOVERNOR. If you dream of seeing the Governor, or chief magistrate of a\nState, it foretells that something will soon happen to please you: if\nyou shake hands with him, and he smiles upon you, the dream is all the\nbetter, as it predicts that you will have honors conferred upon you.\n10, 11.\n\nGRAIN. To dream of regular fields of ripe grain is a good omen, as\nit is a sign of thrift: if the grain is broken down or imperfect, it\nshows trouble with the thrift: if it is mouldy or mildewed, you will\nexperience losses. An abundance of grain in bulk is likewise a sign of\nplenty; but scattered grain is the reverse of this. 69.\n\nGRAPES. To dream of an abundance of grapes is a good omen, as is also\na dream that you eat grapes of a pleasant flavor; but if the grapes\nare sour and broken, it shows that you will have sorrow. If a young\ngirl dreams she has a present of beautiful grapes, she will marry well\nwithin the year, and be prolific of children. 70.\n\nGRASS. Green grass, denotes long life; to cut grass, great trouble. 14,\n6.\n\nGRASSPLAT. Is a sign of a wedding. 16, 18, 46.\n\nGRAZING. To see cattle grazing, denotes that you will be fortunate; to\nthe lover it is a sign he will marry a rich wife, and to the merchant\nit foretells a great increase of business. 76, 10.\n\nGRASSHOPPERS. This is an unfavorable dream to the sick, but to a\nhealthy person it foretells long life. 17, 66.\n\nGRAVE. To dream of a fresh made grave, is a sign of losses: a man of\nbusiness will probably lose money that is owing to him. But to lovers,\nthis sign is apt to be a \u202f\u201cgrave to their dearest hopes:\u201d such a dream\nis decidedly a bad one for them. 21, 72.\n\nGRAVEL. To see heaps of clean gravel, denotes that you will soon go a\njourney by land, which will be a pleasant or profitable one. 44, 19,\n22, 1.\n\nGREASE. If you dream of grease, it foretells that any undertaking you\nmay then be engaged in will go right, and according to your mind: if\nthe grease is dirty you will experience difficulties, but will get\nthrough them. Lovers who dream of grease, will be able to get married\npretty easy, and have things go slick afterward. 4, 11, 44.\n\nGREEN. If you see green things, such as fruit, grass, green fields,\n&c., in your dream, it is a sign of long life, but if the color has\nfaded it is a sign of trouble. 2, 18.\n\nGRIEF. Dreaming of grief is a sign of a jolly time, as such dreams go\nby the rule of contrary. Thus, if you dream you are in great grief\nat the death of a friend or relative, you may calculate that a happy\nWedding is soon to come off, at which you will be present. 24, 62.\n\nGRIN. If you dream you see people grinning at you, it shows that you\nwill do something of which you are ashamed: if you imagine that ladies\nare grinning at you, you will probably have some adventure with one\nthat will make you appear ridiculous. 71, 6.\n\nGRIP, or GRIPPE. To dream you have griping sensations in the bowels,\ndenotes an accident causing a flesh wound: if you dream that a man\ntakes you by the hand, or any part of your body, by a hard grip that\nhurts you, it is a sign that you will have a pressing invitation to go\nsomewhere\u2014perhaps a summons to court. 19, 16.\n\nGROAN. To hear groans of agony in your dream, denotes that you will\nsoon go to a frolic, or to a place where you will be much entertained:\nif you see and recognize people groaning, it shows that they will soon\ndo something to amuse or please you. 41, 8.\n\nGROG. To dream of drinking grog, foretells poverty, or disgrace, or\nboth. If you dream of drinking toddy that tastes very pleasant and\nagreeable, it shows that something will occur which will make you\nmiserable. 55.\n\nGROTTO. To dream of being in a grotto, or cavern in the earth, shows\nthat you will soon meet a near and dear relative: if you live away from\nhome, something will occur to cause your return: such a dream always\nforetells meeting your absent friends. 49, 2.\n\nGROVE. (_See Pic-Nic._) To dream of pleasant and verdant groves or\nwoods, is an excellent sign, as it foretells happiness and success: if\nthe groves are barren of leaves, it is the reverse, and you will be\npoor and unhappy. 65, 78.\n\n A maid who dreams of verdant groves,\n Will surely have the man she loves;\n But if the groves are nipped with frost,\n She\u2019ll be as sure in marriage crossed.\n\nGROW. If you dream that a tree or shrub grows fast, it is a sign that\nyou will do something in a hurry that you will afterward be sorry for:\nif it be your son, or daughter, or any near young relative that you\nimagine to grow very rapidly, it foretells an accident to them. 1, 19.\n\nGRUB. (_See Worm._) To dream of clean-looking, white fat grubs, is a\nsign of good crops to farmers, but to dream of black or dirty looking\ngrubs is the reverse. For a girl to dream of grubs is a bad sign, as it\nputs her in peril of losing her virtue; but to a married woman it is a\ngood sign, for the reason that she will soon be in the family way. 49,\n70, 65.\n\nGRUEL. To dream of drinking gruel, is a good sign if you are sick, as\nit shows a speedy recovery; but if you are well, it is a sign that some\none will overreach you in a bargain, or that you will do some foolish\nact. 2, 11, 22.\n\nGUITAR. This dream denotes luck in love affairs, if the dreamer sings\nand plays on the instrument at the same time. 45, 24.\n\nGUN. To dream of firing a gun, or hearing the report of a gun, denotes\nstrife: if you imagine some friend fires it, it shows that there Will\nbe a difficulty with him. If you dream of killing a bird, squirrel, or\nother animal, by shooting it, it foretells that you will act rashly in\nsome quarrel. For a lover to dream of firing a gun, is a sign he will\nhave trouble with his sweetheart. 21, 57, 16.\n\nGUTS. (_See Entrails._)\n\nGUTTER. If you dream of lying in a gutter, or of seeing a man so\nreclining, it foretells that some honor awaits you, or some one in\nwhose success you take an interest. If a girl dreams of a broken\ngutter, she should be careful of allowing her lover to be too familiar\nwith her person, or some accident may happen. 27, 65.\n\nHACK. (_See Carriage._) If you see, in your dream, a row of hacks, or\ncarriages at a funeral, it shows that you\u2019ll soon attend a wedding or a\njolly party. 32, 19.\n\nHAIL. To dream of a hail-storm, is a sign that you will make a good\nbargain, or will be lucky in some undertaking, provided the hail is\nwhite or in crystals; black hail, denotes sorrow and death, therefore\nyou should never dream of that kind of hail if you can help it. To\ndream of seeing white hail lying on the ground intimates that you\u2019ll\nsoon get plenty of cash in some transaction. 21, 72.\n\nHAIR. If you dream that your hair is thick and bushy, it shows that\nyou\u2019ll grow rich or powerful; if you dream it is curly and kinky, when\nin fact it is not, it is a sign you\u2019ll do something that you will\nafterward be ashamed of; if, in your dream, you imagine that your hair\nhas fallen off, or that it has become extremely thin, it is a bad omen,\nas it shadows forth sickness, and perhaps death. 42.\n\nHAM. Dreaming of fine-looking hams is a good omen; but if they are\nwormy or in any way blemished, it spoils all the luck, and shows that\nyou will be unfortunate. To dream of eating fine-tasting hams is a sign\nthat you will do something noted that will create a talk, but all in\nyour favor; if the ham that you eat is bad and wormy, the said talk\nwill be a scandal against you. 30, 1.\n\nHAMMER. To dream that you see or hear hammering, denotes thrift to some\none of your friends; if you are using the hammer yourself, it shows\nthat you will be fortunate. A hammer is a good article to dream about.\n3.\n\nHAND. If you dream that your right hand is injured, or any thing is the\nmatter with it, it shows that you will soon be called upon to assist\na friend in distress; if it is your left hand, assistance will be\nsolicited from you for an unfortunate stranger. 22, 78.\n\nHANGED. (_See Execution._) To dream of being hanged is an excellent\nomen, as it foretells that you will become either rich or\ndistinguished. If you dream you are going to be hanged, it is nearly as\ngood, as it betokens success in all your undertakings; but should you\nimagine that you eluded the officers of the law and escaped, that is a\nbad omen, as it foretells disappointment and ill-luck. The theory of\nsuch dreams is, that they always work by contraries. 10, 7, 6.\n\nHARP. To dream you play upon the harp, indicates that you have some\nenvious enemies who seek to injure you with slander. To dream you hear\nany person play upon the harp, is a sign that if you have sick friends\nthey will recover. In love affairs this dream is very lucky. 5, 11.\n\nHARVEST. To dream of a harvest field is a good omen. If you dream you\nare working in one it indicates success in business. To lovers, this is\none of the most fortunate signs; to a young man, it signifies he will\nwed a rich and beautiful bride; to a young maiden, it is a sign she\nwill soon be engaged to the object of her affections; to the married,\nit signifies domestic bliss. 4, 11, 44.\n\nHASTE. (_See Running and Walking._)\n\nHAT. For a man to dream he has got a new hat shadows forth good luck\nand advancement; dreaming of an old or shabby hat is a sign he will\nsoon fall in love; and if he dreams he is wearing such a hat, the omen\nis not so favorable, for he will probably endeavor to take improper\nliberties with his sweetheart and be successful. 21, 6.\n\nHATCHING. To dream of hatching fowls of any kind is a sign of thrift;\nif you imagine, in your dream, that a hen comes off with a very large\nbrood of chickens, it shadows forth so much cash to be made by you in\nsome bargain. 24, 68.\n\nHATRED. To dream that you hate any particular person is a sign that\nhe or she has been talking bad about you. If a girl should ever be\nso silly as to dream such a dream about her lover, it shows that he\nmeditates an attack upon her chastity; on the contrary, if she dreams\nthat he hates her, it is a sign that she possesses his whole heart. 44.\n\nHAWK. If you dream of seeing a very large hawk, it shows that you\nwill soon begin a new enterprise; if the hawk darts down and takes a\nchicken, a bird, or a fish, you will probably be successful; if little\nbirds attack the hawk and drive it away, you will have difficulties in\nyour undertaking and may possibly fail in it. 5, 55.\n\nHAY. (_See Raking and Harvest._) To dream of making hay, signifies\nsuccess in all your undertakings. This is a good omen to young lovers.\nTo dream you are selling hay is a bad omen, and portends losses in\nbusiness and dangerous accidents. 49, 11.\n\nHEAD. To dream of heads in any way is a good omen: if you dream\nyour own head is very large, it shows that you will probably become\ndistinguished; if you see a large-headed person in your dream, it is a\nsign you will make the acquaintance of some one who will benefit you.\n65, 9.\n\nHEAL. If you dream of having a sore on your person that was healed up\nquick, it is a sign that some one will cut your acquaintance; if you\nhave a sweetheart or lover, it is probable something will happen to\nbreak off the intimacy. 20.\n\nHEART. To dream of a heart is a bad omen. If you lose your heart it\nsignifies sickness and death. To the married it denotes infidelity\nof their marital vows. To dream you see a human heart shows you are\nsincerely beloved; but to dream you have a pain or palpitation in your\nheart shows you are doomed to suffer through treachery. 46, 11.\n\nHEAT. If you dream of being in a place that is extremely hot, or if the\nweather is so hot that the heat affects you, it shows that some person\nis preparing either to attack you or give you a good scolding. 71, 6.\n\nHEN. (_See Chicken._)\n\nHIDE, or HIDDEN. To dream of concealing anything by hiding it, or\nputting it in an out-of-the-way place, is a sign that some one will\nreveal a secret that you have told. It is a bad omen for lovers to\ndream of hiding things, as it predicts that their intimacy will be\ntalked about as suspicious. 45, 78.\n\nHILL. To dream of going up a hill is a sign you will rise in the world,\nand of going down hill the reverse; if, in your dream, you seem to\nbe approaching a smooth high hill, it shows that you will shortly\nhave a piece of good fortune; but if the hill be rugged and stony, it\nforetells difficulties in connection with the good fortune. 1, 46, 18.\n\n To dream of mountains, hills, or rocks,\n Does signify, slouts, scoffs, and mocks;\n Their pains in passing over shew,\n That she whom you love, loves not you.\n\nHISSING. To dream of hearing hissing noises, such as steam makes, or of\ngeese hissing, is a sign of shame. If a girl dreams this, it foretells\nthat she will do something she is ashamed of: to a man it is a sign he\nwill do an undignified act, or one that will injure his prospects. 47.\n\nHOG. To dream of well-kept and happy-looking hogs is a good omen, as it\nforetells luck and success: but if you see lean and hungry-looking hogs\nsquealing, it shows that any speculation you may enter into about that\ntime will not be of much account if it does not result in a loss. 64.\n\nHOG\u2019S-BRISTLES. This dream denotes great violence and danger. 21, 7.\n\nHOLE. (_See Abyss._)\n\nHOMINY. To dream of eating hominy with a relish is a sign that you will\nmarry below your station in life, or else you will entertain a new\nacquaintance who is much below you in position, who will eventually\ncommand your esteem. To an educated young girl such a dream predicts a\nrunaway match. 2, 10.\n\nHONEY. This dream denotes you will have a long and happy life. If you\ndream you are eating honey it denotes that something will happen that\nwill give you great joy or pleasure. To a young girl it is a sign that\nshe will soon have a lover that will please her. 49, 3, 1.\n\nHOPS. To dream of seeing a large garden of hops in full leaf, denotes\nthrift and wealth: if you see dried hops, and smell their fragrance,\nit shows that you will shortly come into a good lump of money from a\nlegacy or a successful speculation. 27, 9.\n\n To maid who dreams of fragrant hops,\n A lover soon the question pops!\n And marries, too, with quick dispatch\u2014\n Nine children fair will bless that match!\n\nHORNS. To see horns on the head of another person, danger to the\ndreamer on your own wealth and importance. To dream you are gored by a\nhorned animal denotes unhappiness. To lovers it usually predicts that\nthey will have difficulty in connection with their desires; if they\nthink of marrying, some obstacle will be placed in the way of their\nunion, though perhaps not prevent it in the end. 9, 18, 36.\n\nHORSE. If you dream of riding well and easily on the back of this\nnoble animal, your fortune is sure to advance in the world: but if you\nimagine you are thrown from a horse, it is a sign of disgrace. To dream\nof swapping horses shows that some one will cheat you in a bargain; of\nselling a horse, it is a sign of loss; but of buying one, predicts that\nyou will make money by some speculation, or else by selling property.\nHorses are excellent animals to dream about. 2, 11, 22.\n\nHOUSE. (_See Repairing._) To dream you build a house denotes you will\nhave a comfortable life: to burn your house signifies increased riches:\nto dream you spill water in a house is a sign of care and affliction:\nto dream you see a house fall denotes death. Dreaming of building\nhouses, wearing fine clothes, and talking with ladies, is a sign that\nthe parties will suddenly marry. 47, 66.\n\nHOUSEHOLD UTENSILS. The pot denotes the life; the platter the actions\nof life; the candlestick intends the wife; the light, or lantern, the\nhusband; the hearth the estate; vessels of wine are the servants; the\nstores cupboards, and cabinets mean the wife. 24, 7.\n\nHUG. If a young girl dreams of being fondled and hugged by her lover,\nit is a sign he will soon get sick of her and want to be off: it is not\nhalf so bad to let him hug her in real earnest as it is to dream of it.\nThe same sign holds good with the other sex. 2, 11.\n\nHUNGRY. (_See Fast._) To dream of being hungry foretells that you\nwill soon engage in some new enterprise which will prove successful.\nHungry dreams are excellent omens to lovers, as they denote energy\nand success. If a girl dreams that a gentleman comes to see her who\nis hungry, it is a sign that he will woo her in such an earnest and\naffectionate manner as to win her heart. 19, 37.\n\nHUSBANDRY. To dream of implements in husbandry, has a variety of\ninterpretations: to dream of a plough, denotes success in life, and a\ngood marriage; to dream of a yoke, is unfavorable, unless it be broken;\nto dream of a team, death in a family, to dream of a scythe signifies\nsickness. 76, 44.\n\nHUNTING. To dream of going a hunting brings an accusation of\ndishonesty: if you are returning from the chase, good fortune awaits\nyou. 8, 10.\n\nHUT. To dream that you live in a small hut is a sign that you will\nshortly have a house of your own. If in your dream, you visit a little\nhut which is inhabited, it shows that you will be invited to partake of\nthe hospitalities of some family. 29, 70.\n\nICE. (_See Skating and Sliding._) To dream of walking on slippery ice\nin winter, is a sign that misfortune threatens you: if you slip down,\nit foreshadows bad luck: if you dream of gliding or skating easily over\nsmooth ice, it shows that you will probably have a difficulty of some\nkind, but will overcome it and get through handsomely. For lovers to\ndream of going over ice is a bad omen. 4, 28.\n\nILLNESS. (_See Sickness._) To dream that you are ill and confined to\nyour bed is a sign that some one will overreach you in a bargain, or\ncheat you in some way. Such a dream is a bad omen to loves, as it\npredicts false vows. 16, 38.\n\nILLUMINATION. To dream of an illumination augurs success in life and\nmuch happiness; if the light begins to disappear, sorrow and many tears\nwill be your portion. 24, 68.\n\nIMPERTINENCE. If a girl dreams that she meets a gentleman who is\nimpertinent toward her in conversation, it is a sign she will make a\nnew male acquaintance who will be very agreeable to her: if she gets\nangry at the said impertinence she will probably fall in love with her\nnew friend and either marry him or be on improper intimate terms with\nhim. 1, 11.\n\nINDIGO. To dream of indigo, denotes to a female that she will cross the\nocean. When she dreams of putting the indigo in water, and it gives no\ncolor, she may be assured she will arrive in India. But to embrace the\nwater in the usual way, no such thing will come to pass. 27, 15.\n\nINFANT. (_See Child._) Dreaming of a young infant is an excellent omen,\nas it foretells joy and gladness, good luck, and success generally.\nLovers who dream such a dream may be sure of a happy and thrifty\nmarriage. To a business man this dream predicts a new and successful\nenterprise. 29, 76.\n\nINK. To dream that you see splashes of ink on white paper, or on\nanything, is a sign of scandal: after such a dream, you may be sure\nthat somebody will be talking pretty hard about you: the larger the\nsplashes the bigger will be the stories that are told. 41.\n\nINN. To dream of being at an inn, is very unfavorable; it denotes\npoverty and unsuccessfulness in business; to the lover, the\nunfaithfulness of his sweetheart; to the tradesman, loss of business\nand dishonest agents. 46, 33.\n\nINQUEST. To dream that you are present at a coroner\u2019s inquest, is a bad\nsign; you will soon squander your fortune. 49, 16.\n\nINSULT. (_See Abuse._)\n\nINUNDATION. (_See Overflow._)\n\nIRON. (_See Metals._)\n\nITCH. To dream that you have the itch, or that your body itches, shows\nthat you will shortly receive money. 40, 9.\n\nISLAND. To dream that you are on a deserted island shows that you\nwill commit some act to disgust your friends and make them cut your\nacquaintance; be careful how you behave after dreaming such a dream.\n19, 65, 22.\n\nIVORY. To dream of ivory, signifies that you will be very successful in\nbusiness. To the single it is a sign they will soon fall in love and\nbe fortunate in their courtship. To the married it denotes domestic\nhappiness. 4, 75, 30.\n\nIVY. To dream of seeing this vine running over and covering any house,\nis a sign of poverty, particularly if the ivy grows thick and abundant:\nif you dream that it covers your own house, the sign is still more\nsure: for a farmer to dream that he sees ivy covering a tree, denotes\nbad crops. A girl who dreams of being in a bower covered with ivy, will\nprobably marry a poor and shiftless man. 2.\n\nJAIL. (_See Prison._) If a man dreams he is confined in a prison or\njail, it shows that he will have honors or dignities conferred upon\nhim, as such dreams go contrariwise: if his arrest and imprisonment\nworries him, it only shows that he will be the more delighted with his\nnew dignities. 46.\n\nJAR. To dream that a house is jarred or shook by an earthquake, an\nexplosion, or anything that may occur outside, is a sign that the head\nof the family in that house will be sick. Jars of preserved fruit\nor jellies, seen in a dream, are good omens; if you dream you are\npresented with one or more of them, it shows you will be long lived and\nthrifty. 15, 39.\n\nJEALOUSY. To dream you are jealous of your sweetheart, or wife,\nsignifies that they will betray you; for a maiden to dream she is\njealous of her sweetheart is a sign some particular friend will \u202f\u201c_cut\nher out_;\u201d for a wife to dream she is jealous of her husband, foretells\nthe loss of his love. 28, 6.\n\nJELLY. To dream of having pots of jelly given to you, or that you are\neating jelly, and that plenty of it is around, is a sure sign of long\nlife and good fortune generally; as many pots as are given to you, or\nas you may have, so many generations will you live to see. The same\nrule applies to preserved fruits. 65, 18, 78.\n\nJEW. If you dream that a genuine Israelite comes along and annoys you\nin any way, it is a sign you will quarrel with your father; if you\nimagine that he cheats you in a bargain, it predicts that you will\nprobably receive a present from some near relative; on the contrary, if\nhe gives you an advantage in the bargain, it shows that your father, or\nsome elderly relative, will ask a favor of you. 58, 21.\n\nJEWELS. Chains, pearls, or precious stones, etc., and all adornings\nupon the heads and necks of women, are good dreams for the fair sex; to\nwidows and maids they signify marriage; and to those that are married,\nriches. If a man dreams of possessing jewels, it is a sure sign he will\nlose something of great value. 46, 75.\n\nJIG. To dream of dancing a jig with a lady is a sign she is in love\nwith you, or is pleased with you; and if you like her you may go in at\nonce for her favor with much confidence. The omen is the same to a girl\nwho dreams of jigging with a young man. 1, 65, 14.\n\nJOLLY. If you dream you are in company and feel particularly hilarious,\nor jolly, it is a sign of sorrow; mark well who it is that contributes\nmost to your mirth, for he or she may cause you pain. If a girl dreams\nthis of a young man, let her beware of him for a gay seducer. 20.\n\nJOY. To dream that you are in the ecstasy of joy at anything that has\nhappened, bodes pain and trouble; something will be sure to occur to\nmake you unhappy. 46.\n\nJUMPING. (_See Leaping._)\n\nJURY. If a man dreams he is serving on a jury, it is a sign some friend\nwill ask a favor of him that he will hesitate to grant. 38, 3.\n\nKALEIDOSCOPE. To dream you are looking through one of these curious\ninstruments, and if you are delighted with the changes that present\nthemselves, it is a sign, that you will either travel in distant\ncountries or be very discontented at home. 36, 75.\n\nKEG. To dream of an empty one is a sign you will soon leave home; a\nkeg of small fish, or oysters, denotes the receipt of money; a keg\nof spirits of any kind, promises poverty; a keg of powder foretells\nmisfortune; a keg of paint predicts compliments to be paid you. 14.\n\nKEY. If you dream of finding a key, or a bunch of keys, it is a sign\nthat some one will tell you a secret; to dream of losing a key, or\nkeys, is a bad omen, as it predicts that you will come to shame. Such a\ndream is particularly unfortunate to a young lady. 41, 8.\n\nKID. To dream of a young and sportful kid, implies the birth of a\nchild. A young girl who grants her lover too close intimacy before\nmarriage should never dream of the innocent and harmless kid. It is a\ngood dream for married people who desire children. 70.\n\nKING. To dream of a king denotes that the dreamer is ambitious and will\nbe disappointed. If you dream you speak to a king it is a happy omen,\nand is a sign of riches and honor. 4, 14.\n\nKILL. If you dream of wantonly killing any animal, or insect, it\npredicts bad luck and poverty; but if the killing be done by accident,\nit shows that, though you may have a misfortune in consequence, it will\nnot materially affect your interest. For butchers or farmers to dream\nof killing fat and healthy animals for food, is a sign of thrift and\nabundance; but if they dream of killing a hog that does not squeal, it\nshadows forth a death in the family. 41.\n\nKISSING. (_See Stranger._) Dreams of kissing work curiously: if a\ngirl dreams that she is kissed by a young man in whom she takes no\nparticular interest, it may be a good omen, and it may not; for if he\nhappens to be a silly fellow who imagines that she is in love with\nhim, it is a sign she will be slandered in a way that will make her\nunhappy; but if he has no such sentiment, then the sign is exactly the\nreverse\u2014that is, some one will speak well of her to those whom she\nesteems highly\u2014perhaps to her lover. If a girl dreams she is kissed by\nher lover, it predicts that he will say something unpleasant to her at\ntheir next meeting; if a lover dreams that his sweetheart kisses him\nthe sign is similar. 1.\n\nKITE. To dream of flying a kite is a sign that you will soon write a\nletter to some friend or acquaintance. For a girl to dream of seeing a\nkite in the air, predicts that she will receive a letter from a young\nman\u2014whether a lover or not, is uncertain. 53, 62.\n\nKNEE. To dream of falling on the knees, denotes misfortune in business.\nTo see a woman\u2019s knees, good luck and marriage to the girl of your\nchoice. For a woman to see a man\u2019s knee, shows that she will have many\nmale children. 22, 37, 35.\n\nKNIVES. To dream of knives is a bad omen; it betokens law-suits,\npoverty, disgrace, and strife. In love, it shows quarrels and bad\ntempers. 33, 9.\n\nLABOR. To dream you are hard at work, shows you will go a painful\njourney, unless you be very circumspect; but to see others at work,\nbetokens good fortune. If a girl dreams she sees her lover at work, it\nsignifies that he will try and seduce her. 27, 9.\n\nLADDER. To dream of going up a ladder signifies that you will be\na person of some consequence, yet poor: if you imagine you are in\ndanger of falling, it shows that a person who envies your position\nwill attempt to injure you; if you dream of going down a ladder it\nparticularly denotes poverty, though it may allude to some misfortune\nthat will overtake you. 14, 55.\n\nLADIES. To see one, a sign of weakness; many ladies bring calumny and\nslander. To see a light-haired one, is a happy event to the dreamer; a\nbrunette, sickness; a pregnant lady, brings good news; a naked lady,\nsignifies the death of a relative. To hear a lady speak, without seeing\nher, foretells departure. 47, 51, 11.\n\nLAKE. If you dream of sailing on a smooth and clear lake, it\nforeshadows success in all your undertakings; if the lake is rough,\nbut yet has clear water, the sign still holds good, though you will\nencounter difficulties; if it is muddy water, it denotes sickness, and\nlosses through dishonest people about you. 49, 17.\n\nLAMBS. To see young lambs frisking around their mother, is an excellent\nomen, as it denotes thrift, and also happiness in your family ties; if\nyou see them sucking, it is a sign of an increase in your family by\nthe birth of a child. For lovers to dream of young lambs, foretells a\nspeedy and happy marriage. 24, 60.\n\nLAMP. To dream of dropping or breaking a lighted lamp, denotes\ndisappointment. If, in your dream, you see the bright light of a lamp\nat a distance from you in the dark, and you approach it, it shows that\nyou will either have good luck, or will be invited to visit somewhere\nand meet an agreeable person of the opposite sex. 19.\n\nLAND. To dream of buying or inheriting land, is an excellent omen, as\nit foretells health and wealth; but to sell land in your dream, denotes\nsickness and poverty. If a young man dreams of buying land, it is a\nsign he will marry a rich wife. 34, 61, 18.\n\nLANTERN. To dream of carrying a lantern in a dark night is a good sign,\nprovided you have no difficulty in finding your way, for it shows\nthat you will easily accomplish some fortunate object you may have\nin view; if you stumble, or have difficulty in finding your way with\nthe lantern, it denotes trouble and vexation, though success will be\nachieved at last. 28, 10.\n\nLARK. To dream of the lark, shows speedy increase of fortune. To\nlovers, this is a very favorable omen, and is a sign that the course of\ntrue love runs smooth. 47, 68.\n\nLAUGHTER. This omen is unfavorable, and is a sign of tears; it also\ndenotes that you will be worsted by your business engagements; if a\nlover dreams he sees his sweetheart laugh, it is a sign she will jilt\nhim for a stranger; to the married it signifies domestic trouble. 40.\n\nLAUREL or OLIVE. Denotes victory and pleasure; to the married,\ninheritance and children; to the single, marriage. 71, 13, 1.\n\nLAW. To dream of instituting a suit at law, or entering a criminal\ncomplaint against any one, shows that some enemy will injure you\npecuniarily, or that you will lose money by speculation or trade; if\nyou dream you are sued, or prosecuted criminally, the sign is the\nreverse; you will probably receive money unexpectedly, or be uncommonly\nsuccessful in your pursuits. 21, 8.\n\nLAWYER. To dream of meeting a lawyer, brings bad tidings; if you speak\nto him, you will lose some property; if you hear some one speaking in\nhis favor, you will meet with some misfortune. 16.\n\nLAZY. To dream that you see lazy people lounging around, and that you\nare vexed with them, is a sign of bad luck to some of your relatives,\nwho will depend upon you to assist them: if, in your dream, you imagine\nyourself to be lazy and sleepy over your work, it foretells either\nsickness or that you will meet with a loss. 62, 39, 69.\n\nLEAD. (_See Metals._)\n\nLEAPING. To dream you are leaping over walls, doors or gates, is a sign\nthat you will encounter many difficulties in your present pursuits and\nthat your sweetheart will not marry you. 9, 31.\n\nLEAVES. To dream you see leaves growing freshly on a tree or plant,\nis a good sign, and shows you will live long and be happy; but to see\nleaves wither and fall to the ground, is a sign of sickness and death.\n47, 21.\n\nLEGS. To dream of thick and fat legs is a bad omen, as it foreshadows\nsickness: thin, spindleshank legs are excellent ones to dream about, as\nthey denote a successful race with fortune. It is not to be supposed\nthat a lover will ever dream of his sweetheart\u2019s legs, but if he should\ndo so, he will probably imagine them to be round, plump, and of an\nalabaster whiteness; this is a bad dream, and he should by all means\navoid thinking of her legs when he goes to sleep: if a lady dreams that\nher lover\u2019s legs are thin, it foretells that he will be a rich man. 48,\n5.\n\nLEMONS. To dream of lemons denotes contentions in your family and\nuneasiness on account of children; they announce the death of some\nrelation and disappointment in love. 22.\n\nLEOPARD. To dream of this animal, signifies that you have many false\nfriends, who are endeavoring to ruin you, it also betokens family\nquarrels and domestic unhappiness. 24, 76.\n\nLETTERS. These paper missives are good to dream about: if you dream you\nreceive a great number of letters, it foretells that honors await you:\nto receive one letter in your dream, denotes that some one is praising\nyou behind your back. If a girl dreams that she receives a love-letter\nfrom her beau, it shows that he adores her: a gentleman who has a\nsimilar dream of a letter from his sweetheart, may rest satisfied that\nhe only possesses her heart. 28, 54, 1.\n\nLETTER CARRIER. To dream of a letter carrier, indicates you will hear\nfrom an absent one whom you love. 18, 50.\n\nLETTUCE. To dream of eating lettuce, is a sign of health and happiness,\nprovided that it looks green and nice, and tastes good; wilted or wormy\nlettuce shadows forth vexation and trouble. 47, 6.\n\nLIAR. To dream that any one offends you by lying, or defaming your\nfamily by lies, is a sign you will receive a benefit at the hands of a\nstranger. 36.\n\nLIBERTY. To dream of taking liberties with any one, bids you be careful\nof them; if others take liberties with you, it shows they intend to\ncheat you. 39, 40.\n\nLICE. To dream of lice denotes sickness and poverty. 3.\n\nLIE. To dream of telling a lie about a woman, is a sign you will kiss\na black one: to dream that you lie about your business, denotes that a\ncolored man will rob you: lies generally, imagined in dreams, denote\neither injuries or caresses by colored people. 14, 64.\n\nLIGHT. (_See Candles, Lamp and Torch._) To dream you see a great light,\nis a happy presage; it denotes that you will attain honors, and become\nrich; in love it shows a sweetheart of an amiable disposition. 8, 70, 2.\n\nLIGHTNING. To dream of bright and vivid white lightning, denotes that\nyou will soon go on a pleasant trip or journey: blueish silver forked\nlightning foretells good crops and excellent success in business; red\nforked lightning the same, but attended with calamity, or the death of\nrelatives by violence. 24.\n\nLILIES. If you dream of an abundance of these beautiful flowers in\nyour garden or door-yard, it foretells good luck in getting servants\nor people to work for you; it also denotes thrift generally about a\nfarm. If a young girl dreams about lilies, it is a sign she will marry\na smart and industrious man and live happily with him. 61.\n\nLIMEKILN. To dream of burning lime in a kiln, or of seeing a kiln\nin full blast, is a sign of health and abundant crops; but to see a\ndilapidated and empty limekiln in your dream is the reverse of this, as\nfar as the crops are concerned. 77, 5, 15.\n\nLINEN. To dream you are arrayed in clean linen denotes that you\nwill shortly receive some glad tidings; and that your sweetheart is\nfaithful; if it is dirty, then it denotes poverty and disappointment\nin love. White linen, if dressed in it, presages death; colored linen,\nremoval; shifts, a gay sweetheart; gowns, a gift. 24, 71.\n\nLION. If you dream of seeing the king of beasts, and if he is mild and\ngentle looking, it shows that you will easily rise in the world to a\nbetter position than you now occupy: to dream of an angry and roaring\nlion, who tries to get at you, shows, that although you may rise in\nposition, jealous people will annoy and try to injure you. 14.\n\n Dreams of lions, bears, bulls, bees,\n Nests of wasps or hornets, these\n Are emblems whereby are expressed\n Discord with those whom you love best.\n\nLIPS. (_See Mouth._)\n\nLIQUOR. If you dream of seeing large quantities of liquor, or of buying\nbrandy, rum, whisky, &c., it foretells poverty and disgrace; to dream\nof drinking it is the same, only worse if possible. 2.\n\nLIZARD. To dream of lizards, is a sign you have secret enemies who will\ninjure you if they can. If a girl dreams this, it shows that some one\nwill question her virtue. 3.\n\nLOG. To dream of seeing large logs around, is a sign that you will soon\nmove into a new house; but if you imagine that you are splitting the\nlogs, it will spoil all this, for it shows that you will want a house\nbadly without being able to get one to your mind. 21, 78.\n\nLOOKING-GLASS. To dream of a looking-glass, is a bad omen, and\nsignifies that you will be surrounded with false friends, who will rob\nyou until your property dwindles to a shadow. To dream you see your\nface in a looking-glass is a sign of sickness. To break a looking-glass\nportends death. If a girl dreams she sees her lover in a looking-glass,\nit is a sign he will desert or seduce her. 18, 61.\n\nLOSSES. To dream of losing your hat is a sign you will entertain a\nlarge company, either by making a speech, or otherwise attracting their\nattention: dreaming of the loss of money, a watch, or any valuables of\nthat kind, predicts that you will gain as much and perhaps more than\nyour loss amounts to: if a girl dreams of losing her shoe-strings, she\nwill be kissed by an agreeable young man; any article of clothing that\nyou may dream of having lost, shows that you will rig yourself out in a\nnew suit. 47, 6.\n\nLOTTERY. (_See Prize._)\n\nLOVE. To dream you are in love is a sign you will make a fool of\nyourself and do something silly, of which you may afterwards be\nashamed\u2014thus showing that the dream works contrariwise\u2014for love is\nanything but a silly sentiment unless indulged in by fools. For a young\ngirl to dream of falling in love foretells that she will be laughed at\nand ridiculed for some folly. 64, 52, 1.\n\nLUCK. To imagine in your dream that you have had excellent luck, in any\nenterprise, predicts a misfortune: if a man has had a quarrel with his\nsweetheart, and dreams that it is all made up, he may be sure that the\nquarrel will continue a great deal longer than is agreeable to him: to\na young lady, the sign is the same relative to her beau. 18.\n\nMAD DOG. To dream of seeing such an animal frothing at the mouth and\nrunning, is a sign you will be wrongfully accused of a dishonorable\naction or crime. 4, 12, 61.\n\nMAGGOTS. To dream of seeing any thing putrid and covered with maggots,\nis a sign of death; but the death may be that of your favorite dog,\ncat, or bird, though such a dream often foretells the death of a\nrelative or friend. 5.\n\nMAID. (_See Virgin._) If you dream you are pleased with a pretty\nchambermaid, milkmaid, or any nice-looking young girl, whose occupation\ncarries with it the title of maid, it is a good omen, for it predicts\nan excellent match, and plenty of children: it also foretells, in many\ncases, that the dreamer will marry a rich wife. 75, 39.\n\nMAN. To dream of a man dressed in black is lucky; in white, a bad omen:\nto dream of a murdered man, is a sign of long life. To dream you meet a\nstrange man, is a sign you have a vindictive enemy. For a girl to dream\nshe sees her lover by her bedside, is a sign he will attempt some very\nimproper things. 74, 60, 7.\n\nMANNERS. To dream of ill-mannered people, who annoy you by their\nawkwardness and selfish conduct, shows that you will shortly go on a\njourney, and be introduced to a fool. 6, 65.\n\nMAP. To dream of looking over a map, is a sign of an agreeable surprise\nby the arrival of some dear friend from a distance. If a girl dreams\nthis when her lover is away, he will return unexpectedly. 24, 17.\n\nMARKET. To dream you are in a large market, where all kinds of meats\nand vegetables are sold, is a sign you will want money that it will\nbe difficult and perhaps impossible to raise; it is a bad sign for\ntradesmen and others who have notes to pay. 31, 9.\n\nMARRIAGE. (_See Wedding._) If any one should be so unfortunate as to\ndream that he or she was present at a happy and jolly wedding, it\ndenotes that they will attend a funeral; it will not necessarily be at\nthe burial of either of the persons you dreamed you saw married, but\nyou will undoubtedly be called to mourn some friend or relative. To\ndream of being married yourself, foretells your death. 2, 78, 42.\n\nMASK. To dream you see a person wearing a mask, is a sign of hypocrisy;\nto the lover, it shows that his sweetheart loves some one better than\nhimself; to a girl, it signifies that her lover is engaged to another.\nTo married people, it portends infidelity to the wedding-ring. 46, 8.\n\nMASS. To dream of going to this religious celebration, is a sign that\nsome one will either cheat you or rob your house. If a girl dreams\nthis, let her look out that her lover does not prove to be a worthless\nscamp. 13.\n\nMEADOW. (_See Field and Green._) If you dream of walking in a green and\npleasant meadow, where the grass grows regular and looks smooth, it is\nan excellent omen, for it denotes thrift and good luck generally. Such\na dream to a farmer, is a sign of good crops and plenty of money. To\nlovers, it foretells a happy and speedy marriage. 72, 6.\n\nMEANNESS. To dream you are treated in a mean and shabby manner by\nanybody, is a sign you will have unexpected honors thrust upon you. If\na girl dreams that her lover has behaved meanly, she may be sure he\nwill do something to command her admiration. 9, 50, 51.\n\nMEASLES. To dream you have this troublesome disorder shows that\nyou will be fortunate, provided you engage in some disreputable or\ndishonest speculation, or in a robbery of money: but to conscientious\npeople the omen does not hold good. If a girl dreams of having the\nmeasles, it predicts that a rogue will make love to her. 33, 4.\n\nMEAT. To dream of sweet and wholesome fresh meat is a sign you will be\ncoquetted by a lady, and perhaps fall in love with her; but if the meat\nis putrid or maggoty, it foreshadows sickness and death. 8, 16.\n\nMEDICINE. (_See Physic._) To take medicine foretells poverty, to give\nany one medicine, gain. 22, 37, 8.\n\nMELONS. To dream of ripe, fine looking melons, is an excellent omen, as\nit foretells good health, good luck, and much happiness. A watermelon\nfull of black seeds denotes so much money to be paid to you. If a\nmarried woman dreams this, it promises her many children. 46.\n\nMETALS. To dream of metals has different signification and\ninterpretations according to the metal you dream of. To enable our\nreaders to more readily discover the meaning of their dreams, we\nsubjoin a list of the metals with their explanations.\n\nBRASS. To dream that you see a brass ornament, is a sign your\nsweetheart will be false to you. To see any one working in brass, or\ncleaning that metal is a sign you will hear of the death of a distant\nrelative who will leave you a legacy. 43, 11.\n\nCOPPER. To dream of copper, signifies that your sweetheart is\ndeceitful and loves another, it also shows secret enemies. 54, 8, 40.\n\nGOLD. To dream of receiving gold is a good sign, and shows\nyou will be successful in all your undertakings. To dream you pay gold\nbetokens increase of friends. 49, 7.\n\nIRON. For one to dream that he is hurt with iron, signifies\nthat he shall receive some damage. 44, 5.\n\nLEAD. To dream of lead denotes sickness, but to dream of\nleaden bullets good news. If you dream you are wounded by a leaden\nbullet it is a sign you will be successful in love. 49, 50.\n\nQUICKSILVER. To dream of this metal is a sign your friends\nwill all be false to you, it is also a sign of losses in property. 49,\n19.\n\nSILVER. To dream that you are presented with spoons, or\nany silver plate for household use, foretells that you or some near\nrelative, will shortly marry: if you dream of buying these articles, it\nis a sign of poverty: to dream of silver dollars, or bars of silver,\nused in commerce, is a sign that you will gain money either by a legacy\nor speculation. 49, 6.\n\nSTEEL. To break a piece in a dream, shows that you will\novercome your enemies; if you only touch it, your position in life is\nsecure; if you try to bend it, and cannot, you will meet with many\nserious accidents. 41, 50.\n\nTIN. To dream of tin is a good omen and signifies you will\nmarry a rich wife, and make money at business. 41, 8.\n\nZINK. To dream of this metal denotes happiness and prosperity\nto the dreamer. To lovers it is a sign of success in love affairs. 48.\n\nMIDWIFE. To see a midwife denotes revealing of secrets; to the sick, it\nis death. 18, 4.\n\nMILK. (_See Pitcher and Breast._) Dreaming of milk predicts, to a man,\nthe love of a lady. If a newly married lady dream that she has a full\nbreast of milk, it is a sign that she will be happily delivered of a\nfine child; to an old woman, it portends much money. 45, 60.\n\nMILL. If you dream of going to a flouring-mill, where you see plenty\nof grain and flour, it is a good omen, as it shadows forth thrift and\nabundance; but to imagine in your dream that you are in any manufactory\nof cloth fabrics called a mill, is a sign of poverty and want. Girls\nwho work in such places should be careful never to dream of them. 55.\n\nMISER. To dream of a miser is a sign of waste, loss or destruction: if\nyou see him counting and hoarding money, it foretells you will either\nlose or be robbed of some: to see him patching his clothes or his\nhouse or barn denotes a calamity, such as a robbery or a fire. 14, 62.\n\nMISFORTUNE. To dream you have a misfortune denotes luck and success:\nthus; dreaming of the loss of money is a sign you will get some: if you\nimagine your house is burned, you will be successful in a speculation:\nif you dream of being robbed, it foretells a legacy or the finding of\nsomething valuable, &c. 41.\n\nMISTAKE. If any one dreams of being vexed, annoyed, or injured by\nreason of making a mistake, it shadows forth disgrace. Mistaking one\nperson for another in your dream, denotes scandal: thus if a young girl\nshould dream that she hailed a young man as her lover, and found it was\na stranger, it shows that some malicious person will talk lightly of\nher character. 78, 16.\n\nMONEY. (_See Purse and Pocket Book._) To dream of finding money is an\nexcellent omen, as it foretells that you will soon get some: if, in\nyour dream, you see bank bills of a large denomination, or large gold\npieces, the sign is similar: to see small pieces of money is not so\ngood, though it is a pretty fair dream. To dream of receiving money\nis a good omen; in love, it foretells marriage and children. To dream\nyou lose money, is a proof you will be unsuccessful in some favorite\npursuit. 18, 4.\n\nMONKEY. To dream that you see a monkey, and are pleased with his\nantics, shows that you will make the acquaintance of a fool. For a girl\nto dream of playing with a monkey is a sign she will do something she\nis ashamed of, and perhaps lose her virtue. Monkeys are also a sign of\nlaw suits and secret enemies. 17, 6.\n\nMOON. To dream of a sharp new moon with horns pointing upwards is a\nsign you will be rich: if the horns point sideways or downward, it\nforetells poverty: seeing a full moon in your dream denotes a thrifty\nand happy marriage: a half moon shadows forth the loss of a wife or\nhusband by death or desertion. Dreaming of seeing a half moon is fatal\nto the prospects of lovers. 19, 18.\n\nMOUNTAIN. To dream of approaching beautiful smooth-looking mountains,\ndressed in verdure, denotes thrift and happiness, and that you will\nrise in the world: if the mountains look steep, rugged and rocky, it\nforeshadows difficulties and danger, which you may overcome by energy:\nto dream of successfully climbing a mountain, is a sure sign that\nsome honor awaits you, or that you will make a good deal of money:\ndifficulties in climbing show troubles and vexations in getting your\nhonors or your money. 64.\n\nMOTH. To dream of moth is a sign some one is robbing you, it also\npredicts slander by a supposed friend. To dream you see a moth burn its\nwings in a flame signifies that an enemy will die. 22.\n\nMOTHER. If you dream of quarreling with your mother, it is a sign she\nwill do some generous act, or confer a benefit that will delight you:\nto dream of fondling your mother shadows forth her loss by death, or\nthat you will be parted from her: if you dream she makes you a present,\nthe dream will come true so far that she will probably present you with\na new brother or sister. 46, 34.\n\nMOURNING. To dream that you are dressed in mourning for the death of a\nrelative, is a sign that a wedding will soon take place in your family,\nor that of some blood relation. To see people dressed in black, and be\namong them, foretells an invitation to a wedding or to be present at a\nmarriage ceremony. 32, 12.\n\nMOUSE. (_See Trap._) To dream of killing a mouse is a sign you will\ndetect a thief in stealing from you: if, in your dream, you see a\nmouse, or a number of mice, it foretells that you will soon have\nthieves in the house. For a girl to dream that she pets a mouse, shows\nthat she will have a light-fingered or dishonest lover. 75, 70.\n\nMOUTH. Dreaming of a large mouth and big lips is a sure sign you will\nbe kissed by some one of the opposite sex: to dream of a mouth out\nof shape, or with a hare lip, denotes to a woman that she will have\na deformed child, and to a man that he will get into a difficulty by\nmeans of his intimacy with a woman: to dream of a small mouth and thin\nlips is a sign of loud and angry words, and that some one will give you\na scolding. 27, 6, 3.\n\nMOVING. To dream of moving your residence or place of business, under\nany circumstances, is a sign of poverty: if, in your dream, you see\nother people moving, it foretells that some one of your relatives will\ncome to poverty, and you will have to assist him. 55.\n\nMUD. To dream of getting covered with mud by having it splashed over\nyou, is a sign that you will be belied and talked about. 29.\n\nMULBERRIES. To dream of mulberries denotes to the maiden, a happy\nmarriage; to the married, affection and constancy. 64, 70, 3.\n\nMULATTO. (_See Negro._) To see a mulatto in sleep, brings good luck; a\nfemale mulatto, dangerous sickness. 4, 11, 44.\n\nMULE. To dream of riding a mule, or driving one, is a sign of celibacy:\ngentlemen or ladies who dream this may safely calculate that they will\nlive single for the rest of their lives, unless some more vivid dream\nwith a favorable omen should counterbalance the influence of this\none. If married people dream of mules, it foretells that they will be\nchildless. 4, 51, 66.\n\nMUSHROOM. To dream you eat mushrooms is a sign you will live to a good\nold age, but to dream you see them grow, or gather them, is a sign you\nwill get rich by a splendid speculation, and then get poor as suddenly\nas you got wealthy. 49, 59.\n\nMUSIC. (_See Singing._) To dream of hearing strains of sweet music,\ndenotes joy and happiness. If a girl who has a lover dreams this, he\nwill surprise her either with a splendid present, or with an invitation\nto go somewhere where she will be delighted and enjoy herself much. 74,\n18.\n\nMUSTARD. To dream of mustard or mustard seed, is a bad omen, and\nforetells sickness and perhaps death. To dream you eat mustard, is a\nsign your sweetheart or lover is false to you. To married persons this\ndream indicates domestic quarrels. 4.\n\nMYRTLE. To dream of myrtle, is a sign you will receive a declaration of\nlove. To the married it signifies domestic happiness. 3, 11, 33.\n\nNAILS. To dream that one\u2019s nails are longer than usual, signifies\nprofit, and the contrary, loss: to dream your nails are cut off,\nsignifies loss and disgrace, and contention with friends and relations.\nIf one dreams his nails are pulled off, it threatens with misery and\naffliction, and danger of death: for a man to dream he bites his\nnails, shows quarrels and dissensions: to dream of paring your nails,\nforetells a lingering sickness. 57, 8.\n\nNAKEDNESS. To dream you see a man naked, signifies fear and terror: to\ndream you see a woman naked, signifies honor and joy, provided she be\nfair-skinned and handsome; but if she is crooked, old, wrinkled, or\notherwise ill made, and black withal, it signifies shame, repentance,\nand ill luck. For a woman to dream she sees her husband naked,\nsignifies success in her enterprises and a good number of children. 14.\n\nNAPKIN. A white napkin denotes orderly conduct, which will bring\nhappiness; a dirty napkin, disorderly behavior. 70, 6.\n\nNAVEL. If you dream that your navel is out of shape, or looks queer,\nit is a sign of misfortune in connection with the opposite sex, unless\nyou are married, in which case it denotes the birth of a child: for\nunmarried people to dream such dreams foretells trouble and disgrace.\n35, 17.\n\nNECK. If a woman or girl dreams that her neck is large and thick, it\nis a sure sign she will bear many children: if it seems smaller than\nusual, it denotes to a married woman a miscarriage, and to a girl\nthe loss of her beau: if a woman dreams that her neck is fair and\nbeautiful, it foretells that some gentleman will make love to her. 22.\n\nNECKLACE. For a girl to dream that a gentleman presents her with a\nnecklace, is a sign that some one meditates an attempt to seduce her:\nif a married woman dreams that her husband gives her a necklace, it\nshows that she will soon be in the family way. 69, 12, 21.\n\nNEEDLES. To dream of needles, signifies that you will be grievously\ninjured by the deceit of supposed friends. For a girl to dream that\nshe pricks herself with a needle, is a sign that her beau will attempt\nimproper liberties. 8, 49.\n\nNEGRO. To dream of being frightened or assaulted by a negro, is a\ngood sign, as it denotes safety: if the negro comes towards you in a\npleasant and agreeable way, it shows that you will meet with a loss or\nbe robbed: to see a grinning, pleasant-looking negro in your dream,\nforebodes trouble through the conduct of a dependent. 32.\n\nNEW YEAR\u2019S PRESENT. To dream you give a New Year\u2019s present, signifies\nyou will hear good news. To receive one, is a sign you will soon get\ninto trouble. 64, 19.\n\nNIAGARA. As every one has heard of this great cataract, and multitudes\nhave seen it, it is not strange that a good many people dream of going\nthere: such a dream is a sign that you will be embarrassed in company\nby a sensation of some kind. 13, 49, 6.\n\nNIGHT. (_See Stars._) To dream of a clear beautiful night when the\nstars are shining, indicates that you will have a long and happy life\nand be very successful in all your undertakings. To dream you are\ncourting your sweetheart on such a night shows that she is true to you.\nTo dream of a cloudy night portends disasters in business, and to dream\nof a stormy night indicates sickness. 5, 19.\n\nNIGHTCAP. For a girl to dream that she forgot to take off her nightcap,\nbut received company in it, is a sign she will be kissed by a strange\ngentleman, or that some stranger will be smitten by her charms: if\na married woman dreams this, it foretells that her husband will be\njealous of her, and perhaps not without cause. 70.\n\nNIGHTINGALE. To dream of this bird signifies light amours; to hear it\nsing, happiness. 48.\n\nNOBILITY. Should anybody be so foolish as to dream that they are\ncreated a Duke, an Earl, or that they have conferred upon them any\npatent of nobility, it is a sign of shiftlessness and poverty. If a\ngirl dreams that a lord is in love with her, she will be apt to marry a\nshiftless and needy fellow. 21, 19.\n\nNOISE. If you dream of hearing strange or mysterious noises, it is a\nsign that the spirit of some dead relative hovers near you, and has an\ninfluence upon your actions. 20.\n\nNOSE. To dream of big-nosed people is generally a good omen, as such\npersons are usually smart and energetic. To dream of snub noses is a\nsign of a quarrel, or that you will be abused by somebody. 48.\n\nNUGGET. This is an English word for a lump of gold: to dream of digging\na big nugget of pure gold, is a sign of wealth and honors. Dreams\nrelative to gold or silver promise good fortune always. 4, 11, 44.\n\nNUN. For a young girl to dream of seeing a sober-looking nun, is\na sign of celibacy; if she imagines she speaks to the nun she may\nsafely calculate on being an old maid; if a young man dreams this, it\nforetells that he will suspect his sweetheart of being untrue to him,\nand probably discard her altogether. 29, 65.\n\nNURSE. Dreaming of a nurse for lying-in women foreshadows luck and\nplenty of cash; to a farmer, such a dream prognosticates abundant\ncrops, and to newly married people good crops of children. 28.\n\nNUTS. To dream of nuts denotes riches and happiness; to the lover,\nsuccess; if you are gathering them, it is a good omen; but if you crack\nthem, unfavorable. 48, 6.\n\nOAK. To dream of seeing a very large oak tree, and of gathering acorns\nunder it, is a sign that some wealthy relative will leave you a fortune\nby will: if anybody dreams this who does not happen to have wealthy\nrelations, it may turn out that somebody else will take the liberty of\nmaking a will in his or her favor; if not, a streak of good luck will\ncome in some other way to make the matter right. 65.\n\nOAR. If you dream of sailing in a boat, and losing one or more of the\noars, it is a sign of the death of your father, mother, or guardian, or\nof some one to whom you look for protection: if an engaged young girl\nor a married woman dreams this, it foretells the death of a lover or\nhusband. 2.\n\nOATH. To dream of taking a solemn oath before a magistrate, or in a\ncourt of justice, foretells quarreling and litigation: even if you are\na timid and quiet person, such a dream promises that some one will\nquarrel with you. 20.\n\nOATS. To dream of this grain foretells a journey by land: if an engaged\nyoung girl dreams of oats, it denotes that her wedding tour is not far\noff. 69.\n\nOCEAN. (_See Sea._)\n\nODD FELLOW. To dream of joining a society of this order foretells\nsickness and distress: if you are already an Odd Fellow, and dream of\nstrife in the Lodge, and that you are in danger of being turned out, it\nis a sign that you will attain a higher station in life by riches or\nhonors. 2.\n\nOFFICER. (_See Police._) To dream that a military officer is in your\ncompany shadows forth beggary and disgrace. If a girl dreams that she\nhas such a person for a lover, she may calculate that her first suitor\nwill be a poor shoat, of no account whatever. 70, 28.\n\nOIL. To dream it is spilled on the floor, signifies damage; to spill it\non yourself, profit. 1, 41.\n\nOLD MAN. To dream of seeing a man bowed down with age is a sign of good\nluck in business, and to a politician it denotes advancement. This is\nnot a good dream for females, for to them it denotes want. 63.\n\nOLD WOMAN. To dream of an aged woman is generally a good omen, as it\nshadows forth domestic happiness: to a married woman such a dream\nforetells the birth of a child: to a young girl, that she will have an\noffer of marriage. 3.\n\nONIONS. To dream of this vegetable, denotes both good and bad luck: if\nyou are eating them, you will soon receive some money; your sweetheart\nwill be faithful, but cross, and you will be engaged in some dispute;\nif you are throwing onions away, it is the forerunner of mischief; in\nlove, quarrels; in trade, opposition. 5, 8, 48.\n\nOPERA. To dream of going to the opera is a sign you will travel: if you\nhear a new singer that delights you, it foretells that you will make a\nnew acquaintance on some journey: if an engaged young lady dreams of\nthe opera, her wedding journey is thus shadowed forth. 27, 55.\n\nOPIUM. To dream of this drug foretells sickness and poverty: if you\nimagine that you see some one under the influence of opium, and in\ndanger of dying, it foretells a misfortune either to yourself or some\nnear relative. 64.\n\nORANGE. To dream of having an abundance of oranges, shadows forth that\nyou will get just so much yellow gold: if you dream of eating them, it\npromises you health: if you give them to friends, it foretells that you\nwill be honored and esteemed: if a girl dreams that her lover presents\nher with fine-looking oranges, he will undoubtedly bring her a fortune\nwhen she marries. 3, 12, 36.\n\nORCHARD. If, in your dream, you imagine you are in a fine orchard, and\nthe fruit looks fair and tempting, and you eat of it, it foretells\nthat you will shortly be engaged in some pleasant adventure either of\nlove or intrigue: if you see rotten, wormy, or scraggy-looking apples,\nit shows that you will be thrown into mean and low company, much to\nyour disgrace. Such dreams are bad ones for young girls. 18, 12.\n\nORGAN. To dream of hearing the solemn and enchanting music of a church\norgan is a sad omen to young girls, as it foretells their early death:\nif a gentleman dreams this, it points to the death of some young girl\nin whom he takes an interest, and perhaps to his sweetheart, if he has\none. To imagine you hear some lively tune on a street organ is also a\nbad omen, as it foretells that you will soon attend a funeral. 55, 3.\n\nOVEN. (_See Baking._)\n\nOVERFLOW. (_See Flood._) To dream that a river, or any stream,\noverflows its banks and surrounds your house with water, is a sign of\nwealth; that is, you will acquire riches in proportion to the quantity\nof water around, and the ground it covers: if you fancy that any one is\ndrowned in the water, it foretells a misfortune in connection with your\nriches. 9, 66, 18.\n\nOWL. To dream of seeing one of these birds of night in a roosting\nposition, is a sign that you will discover an important secret that\nrelates to yourself: to see an owl flying foretells that some secret of\nyour own will get out. 3.\n\nOXEN. (_See Cattle._)\n\nOYSTERS. If, in your dream, you imagine you are eating oysters, it\ndenotes that you will have difficulties relative to money matters: but\nto rake them out of the water is a sign of money-getting: to dream of\nopening nice fat oysters for other people to eat is also a favorable\nomen, as it shows that you will have plenty of cash. 7, 53.\n\nPAINTING. To dream of painting your house is a sign of sickness in the\nfamily, but at the same time thrift and good luck in business: if,\nin your dream, you see a white house newly painted outside, you will\nprobably soon be summoned to attend a funeral: to see any other colored\nhouse newly painted, foretells that you will hear of the sickness of\na friend or relative: dreaming of beautiful paintings of landscapes,\nportraits, &c., is an omen of bad luck and poverty. 22, 11, 5.\n\nPALL-BEARER. For a man to dream that he is a pall-bearer at a funeral,\ndenotes that he will be married within a year: to dream of seeing\npall-bearers, is a sign you will be invited to a wedding. 49, 6.\n\nPANCAKE. (_See Thick._) For a girl to dream of baking pancakes, is\na sign that some gentleman is in love with her; and if a married\nwoman has such a dream, she may be sure that some man, other than her\nhusband, admires her; to dream of eating pancakes, foretells falling in\nlove, to either sex; and if you relish them, you will be successful in\nyour love. 36.\n\nPANTALOONS. If you dream you have a new pair of pantaloons, it is a\nsign you will be prosperous; if they do not fit, and are too tight, it\nis a sign you will be pinched in money matters; if they are dark, it\nis a sign of long life, but if light, it denotes sickness. Young girls\nshould try and not dream about pantaloons, for such an omen is very\ndangerous to them. 46, 8.\n\nPANTHER. To dream that you see one of these animals, and are terrified\nby it, shows that you will be disgusted at the ingratitude of a friend\nyou have served: if, in your dream, you see a tame panther, and\ncaress it, it foretells that you have some ungrateful person in your\nhousehold, (perhaps a servant,) or else a false-hearted friend. 41.\n\nPAPER. To dream of smooth paper, is a good omen; but if it appears\nrumpled, it will give you much pain. To dream of paper that is wet,\nsignifies success in love matters. 21, 18.\n\nPARADE. To dream of a parade of soldiers, and that you are delighted\nwith the military display, foretells that some one will deceive you: to\na business man it is an omen of losses by bad debts or dull trade: to a\nyoung girl it foreshadows a gay but false lover: to a married woman it\nis a sign that her husband, though kind, will be false to his vows. 58,\n1.\n\nPARASOL. If a young woman dreams she has got a new parasol, it predicts\nfor her a new lover: if she imagines she has broken her parasol, her\nlover (if she has one) will leave her; if not, then some male friend,\nin whom she placed confidence or derived advantage, will fail her: to a\nmarried woman, dreaming of a broken parasol is a very bad omen, as it\npredicts ruin to her husband. 34.\n\nPARDON. To dream of asking pardon for an offence, is a bad omen under\nany circumstances, as it foretells humiliation and disgrace: for a\ncriminal to imagine, in his dream, that the Governor has pardoned him,\nis a sign that he will not only not be pardoned, but that he will\nsuffer much remorse and unhappiness in his imprisonment. 19, 3, 40.\n\nPARROT. To dream that you are pleased with the chattering of one of\nthese birds, is a sign that some deceitful person will flatter you: if\nan engaged young girl has such a dream, she should look sharp to the\nantecedents of her lover before marriage, as it is ten to one that he\nis not worthy of her confidence: the dream may, however, point to some\nother flatterer. 15, 2, 33.\n\nPARTING. To dream of parting from friends with regret, is a sign of\ndisappointment: if a girl dreams that her lover is going away anywhere,\nand she feels bad when he takes his leave, it predicts that he will not\n\u202f\u201cgo raving distracted with delight\u201d the next time he comes to see her,\nand she will consequently be disappointed at his supposed coolness; but\nall this may not amount to anything more than to make her feel bad for\nthe time being. 4.\n\nPARTNER. (_See Ball._) To dream that your partner in a dance slights\nor snubs you, is a sign that some one is enamored of you: this applies\nto either sex: if you dream of a particularly agreeable and attractive\npartner, it shows that you will quarrel with somebody of the opposite\nsex: for a man in business to dream of taking a partner, foretells that\nhe will be robbed. 17, 38.\n\nPARTY. To dream of giving a large and sumptuous party to your friends,\nis a sign of losses and poverty: if you imagine you go to such a party,\nit foretells that you will be asked to assist some one in distress. 77,\n18, 42.\n\nPASTURE. (_See Cattle._) To dream of seeing cattle feeding in a\ngreen and rich pasture, foretells thrift and wealth: if the grass is\nsun-burnt and only green in patches, and the cattle look lean, the sign\nis the reverse; and such a dream denotes short crops to farmers. 6, 11,\n66.\n\nPATCHES. For a woman to dream of patching the clothes of her husband or\nchildren, is an excellent omen, as it denotes that each patch will be a\ngood lump of money brought into the family. 5.\n\nPATENT RIGHT. To dream of procuring a patent for an invention of your\nown, shows that you will never realize anything from it: if money is\nto be made by it, some one else will get the benefit: if you dream of\ngetting a patent for some other person, it is a sign of good luck in a\nspeculation. 33, 17.\n\nPATHS. To dream you are walking in a broad, good pathway, denotes\nhealth and success; in love it shows you will meet with a sweetheart,\nwho will make you happy, but if the path is crooked it foretells\ntrouble to the dreamer. 44.\n\nPAUPER. To dream that you visit the poor-house and see the inmates, is\na sign to a woman that she will bear many children, and to a man that\nhe will raise a large family, such a dream to a young girl foretells\nthat she will be apt to become a mother before she is a wife. 21.\n\nPAWNBROKER. If you dream of pawning any of your goods at a\npawnbroker\u2019s, provided you have never patronized such a place, it\nforetells that fortune is about to smile on you, and if you take\nadvantage of the circumstance, you will surely get rich. To lazy and\nshiftless people, such a dream would not be of much account. 4, 11, 22.\n\nPEACHES. To dream of fine, ripe, yellow peaches, denotes that you will\nget just so much yellow gold, which makes this dream a splendid one\nfor gold-diggers: if the peaches you dream about are very red, or look\nsmall and wilted, it shows that your gold will turn out to be about\nhalf copper, or that your luck will not amount to much. 17, 1, 9.\n\nPEACOCK. To dream of this proud bird, is a sign of poverty; if you\nimagine that he spreads his tail, and exhibits all his finery, so much\nthe worse. For a girl to dream of a peacock, shows that she will have\nan empty-headed fop for a lover, who will turn out to be as poor as a\nrat. 65, 54.\n\nPEANUTS. To dream of an abundance of ground-nuts, or peanuts, shows\nthat you will be poor, but contented, healthy and happy. If a married\nwoman in the family-way dreams of them, it is a sign she will have a\nboy. 11.\n\nPEAS. To dream of eating green peas, is a sign of health; and if\nyou imagine that you eat crooked dry peas, it foretells both health\nand thrift. If you dream of feeding any animal with dry peas, it\nforeshadows good luck. 6.\n\nPEARLS. To dream of these gems, denotes poverty and misery; if a\ngirl dreams that a lover gives her a piece of jewelry set in pearls,\nit shows that he will never be well off; and if she imagines that\nhe presents her with a string or necklace of pearls, she may safely\ncalculate that he will turn out to be a wretchedly poor man. 56.\n\nPEARS. To dream of ripe, mellow pears, portends elevation in life,\nriches, honors, and constancy in love. If a woman with child dream of\nthem, she will have a daughter. To dream of unripe, choke-pears, is a\nsign of misfortunes, and inconstancy in love. 33.\n\nPEDDLER. If you dream of buying things of a peddler, it is a sign that\nsome one will cheat you, or that one of your debtors will mysteriously\ndisappear, which amounts to about the same thing: if a lady housekeeper\ndreams this, let her look sharp that her servants do not rob or swindle\nher in some way. 42, 13.\n\nPEN-KNIFE. To dream of a pen-knife, is a bad omen, and foretells loss\nin trade, attacks by thieves, and unfaithfulness in love. 29, 47.\n\nPENS. To dream of writing with a steel pen, is a sign you will get\nyourself into a bad scrape, by tattling about your friends and\nneighbors. If the pen be gold, it foreshadows good news, and success\nin business and love affairs. To dream you are making a quill pen, is\na sign you have many enemies, but that you will triumph over them, and\nbe successful in all you undertake. But this dream does not amount to\nmuch, as it is only a \u202f\u201cset-off\u201d to dreaming of a pen-knife, which is a\nbad omen. 28, 6.\n\nPEPPERS. To dream of picking pepper-pods, foretells to married people\nsmart children, if they have any. A girl who dreams this, will have\na smart man for a lover, but he will not pet her much either as a\nsweetheart or wife. 9.\n\nPERFUMERY. To dream of pleasant and delicate perfumes, foreshadows\nsluttish habits in a woman: if a lover dreams of perfumes in connection\nwith the beloved object, it shows that when he marries, he will find\nher to be a slut. A girl who dreams this, will be apt to have a\nshiftless lover. 71, 1.\n\nPERJURY. To dream that any one injures you by false swearing, or by\nperjury in court, is a sign that you will discover some friend or\nacquaintance to be dishonest, or guilty of a crime, or of mean conduct;\nif a girl dream this, it is a similar omen relative to her lover. 52.\n\nPET. If a girl dreams she has a pet animal of any kind, (a child, of\ncourse, excepted,) it is a sign she will never marry: if she dreams of\na pet child, or one whom she adores, it foretells for her a prolific\nmarriage. 49.\n\nPHYSIC. (_See Medicine._) In a dream-book published 1751, is this\nprediction: \u202f\u201cIf any man doth dreme he taketh much physicke, it\nforetelleth a bad lyver, and a quarell with ye doctor; but a virgin\nwho dremeth this dreme, will marry ye doctor first, and quarell\nthereafter.\u201d 37, 8.\n\nPIANO. To dream of hearing pleasant and lively tunes on the piano, is a\nsign of thrift and domestic happiness; but if you dream of buying, or\nthat any one presents you with a piano, it foreshadows poverty; it is a\nbad omen for a girl to dream she has got a new piano. 72.\n\nPICKLES. If a girl dreams of eating pickles, it is a sign some old\nbachelor will kiss her: if a young man dreams of pickles, he will\nbe beloved by a maid older than himself, and probably of a sour and\ncrabbed temper. 39, 2.\n\nPICNIC. For a young man to dream of going with a pic-nic party into\nthe woods, is a sign that some silly girl will fall in love with him:\nif a young girl dreams this, some vain fellow will probably pay her\nattentions and compliments merely to gratify his own vanity. 37, 12.\n\nPICTURES. To dream of seeing pictures is a sign of joy without profit.\n48, 7.\n\nPIES. To dream of eating pie is a sign that you will soon be in want.\nTo dream you are making pies is a sign of pleasure and happiness. 38.\n\nPIGEONS. To dream of pigeons is a sign of content and delight, and\nsuccess in business. 39.\n\nPIGS. To dream of seeing pigs is good; if you are in trade you will\nhave great increase in your business from foreign parts; if you are\nin love, your sweetheart is thereby denoted to be of a good temper,\nfaithful and sincere to you, and that if you marry you will become\nhappy. 4, 12, 48.\n\nPINEAPPLE. To dream of this fruit is a sign of gold; if you see an\nabundance of it, you will receive plenty of gold soon after: a young\ngirl who dreams of pineapples will probably get a rich husband. 22, 9,\n78.\n\nPINKS. If a lady dreams of pinks, it foretells she will soon have a new\nbonnet that she will be delighted with: if a gentleman dreams of them,\nhis wife or sweetheart will get a new bonnet that will please him.\nThat\u2019s all. 34.\n\nPINS. To dream of pins signifies that you will have small troubles all\nthrough life, but no great disasters; to dream you find a pin is a sign\nof success in business; if a girl dream she is pricked with a pin, she\nmust keep a sharp look out for her lover or she may get in trouble. 3,\n71.\n\nPIPE. To dream you smoke a pipe is an omen of success in business; if\nthe pipe goes out three times it is a sign you will meet with losses.\nTo dream you break a pipe foretells a quarrel that will injure your\nprospects. 49, 7, 9.\n\nPIRATE. To dream you are captured by pirates is a sign you will travel\nin foreign countries and eventually make your fortune: if a girl dreams\nthis, it foretells that she will marry a foreigner who, dying, will\nleave her a fortune. 6.\n\nPISS-ABED. To dream that you wet the bed in your sleep, is a sign you\nwill lose something by fire: your house may not burn, but some article\nwill either fall in the fire or be damaged by it\u2014perhaps your servant\nmay spoil some clothing while ironing. 5, 11, 55.\n\nPISTOL. To dream of arming yourself with a pistol foretells that you\nwill lose _caste_, and perhaps become poor: if a girl dreams that her\nlover carries a pistol, she may be sure that he is below her in social\nlife, and therefore an unpropitious or unsuitable match. 16, 21, 57.\n\nPITCH. To dream that you get pitch on your person is a sign that some\none has been scandalizing you by telling lies: a girl who dreams this,\nmay be sure that her fair fame has been questioned somewhere. 54, 14.\n\nPITCHER. (_See Jug._) To dream you drink water or milk from a pitcher\nis a good omen, and signifies you will be prosperous in love and\nbusiness. To dream you spill anything out of a pitcher foretells losses\nfrom the treachery of supposed friends, and to dream you break a\npitcher portends sickness, and accident while on a journey. To dream of\nbreaking a pitcher is also a sign of bankruptcy through carelessness.\n49, 20.\n\nPLAINS. To dream of being on a beautiful plain signifies health,\nhappiness and riches, but portends some crosses in love. 4, 12, 48.\n\n Dreams of wandering over plains,\n Walking in cross ways and lanes,\n And being in thick woods quite lost,\n Declare that lovers shall be crost.\n\nPLANTS. (_See Blossom._) To dream of healthy, thriving plants is a\ngood omen, as it foretells success in life, and smart children: such a\ndream is an excellent one for lovers, as it denotes an early and happy\nmarriage. 43, 14, 7.\n\nPLASTER. For a girl to dream of having a plaster on her person is a\nsign that some one will offer her an insult, or perhaps make an attempt\nupon her chastity: if a man dreams this, the same will probably happen\nto his wife or sweetheart. 72, 8.\n\nPLENTY. (_See Abundance._)\n\nPLOW. (_See Husbandry._)\n\nPLOWING. For a farmer to dream that he is plowing on smooth and even\nground, denotes heavy crops, and good luck generally: if he plows up\nstones it is all the better, but if his plow gets hitched into a rock\nor stump, it denotes vexation and trouble with his good luck. 41.\n\nPLUMS. To dream of an abundance of this fruit is a sign of health but\nyet you are liable to lose your life by an accident: if a girl dreams\nshe is presented with plums, it foretells her early death. 36, 14, 77.\n\nPOCKET-BOOK. To dream of finding a pocket-book full of money is a sign\nof riches, but if it contains no money, it foretells a disappointment:\nif you dream you lose your pocket-book, it foreshadows success in\nbusiness. 19, 78.\n\nPOET. If any young person should be so silly as to dream of writing\npoetry, it foretells poverty; and for one to dream of having a\npoetical lover or sweetheart, is a sign that they will fall in love\nwith a fool. 64, 50.\n\nPOISON. To dream that you are poisoned is a sign you will get into bad\nor unworthy company: if you imagine that any friend or acquaintance is\npoisoned, it is a similar omen as regards them: if, in your dream, you\nthink any one has given you poison to murder you, it foretells that\nsome base proposal will be made to you. 3, 9.\n\nPOLE-CAT. If a man dream he sees one, he will marry a beautiful woman;\nif a woman, she will marry a handsome man. If this delightful animal\nmake an attack on you it is a sign you will suffer from the slander of\nenemies. 68, 2.\n\nPOLICE. If any respectable person dreams of being arrested by police\nofficers, it is a sign that some distinguished honor will be conferred\non him: if a young girl should dream that policemen took her lover into\ncustody, she will hear of his advancement in the world. 46, 30.\n\nPOLITE. To dream of polite people is a sign that a stranger will visit,\nor be introduced to you: if a girl dreams that her beau is stiff and\nformal in addressing her, it foretells that she will soon have a new\nadmirer. 61.\n\nPOOR. To dream of poverty is a sign of good luck, but if you imagine\nyou are so poor as to be induced to beg, it foretells that some one\nwill either insult you or hurt your feelings, but yet your luck will\nnot be impaired. 8, 2.\n\nPORK. (_See Bacon and Ham._)\n\nPORTRAIT. To dream of having your portrait taken, is a sign some one\nwill compliment your good looks; but if you are dissatisfied and think\nit a bad likeness, the compliment will run in a contrary direction, and\nyou will be called frightfully ugly-looking behind your back. 12.\n\nPOUND. For a farmer to dream that any of his cattle are taken to pound,\nis a sign that they will increase: if he dreams of seeing strange\ncattle in a pound, it foretells that he will soon buy some. 19, 55.\n\nPRAISE. To dream that any one praises or flatters you, is a sign of\nscandal: if a girl dreams that her lover praises her good looks or\namiability, she bad better discard him as a false-hearted person who\ncares nothing about her, but is merely flattering his own vanity. 35,\n17.\n\nPRAYER. To dream of prayer, or of joining in a prayer with others, is a\nsign you will ask a favor of some one who will refuse you: if you dream\nof hearing prayers at church, or in any public place, it shows that\nyou will be requested to do something which you will refuse to do, and\nthereby make an enemy. 34, 77.\n\nPREGNANCY. For a woman to dream that she is pregnant when she is not,\nis a sign of some special good fortune; she will either have a handsome\npresent, or else her husband will be lucky in some business transaction\nand give her a part of the money: if a girl dreams this, it foretells\nthat she will get married about as sudden as if the dream were a\nreality. 4, 11, 44.\n\nPRESENT. (_See Gift._) To dream of receiving a present, is usually\na sign of disappointment; but if a married woman dreams that she is\npresented with fruit, it shows that she will soon become pregnant: if\na girl imagines she is presented by her lover with gold jewelry, it\npredicts that he covets the possession of her person rather than her\nheart. 64, 21.\n\nPRESERVES. To dream that you make or eat them, foretells the\nacquisition of much money and property, also health and happiness. 3,\n33, 9.\n\nPRETTY GIRL. For a young man to dream of admiring a pretty girl, is a\nsign he will marry a simpleton: if a girl dreams she has a nice and\npretty-looking lover, she will be apt to take up with a putty-head.\nHere is an ancient rhyming prediction: 4, 13.\n\n To dream you love a girl who\u2019s pretty,\n Foretells that you\u2019ll in sorrow part;\n But if you dream she\u2019s wise and witty,\n She\u2019ll be the darling of your heart!\n\nPRICK. If a lady dreams of pricking her finger while sewing, she must\nput it in her mouth on awaking, and make a wish, and she will realize\nit within one month, provided it relates to love matters: a wish of any\nother kind will doubtless come true some time or other, as the omen is\nan excellent one: if a lady dreams she pricks herself with a pin, the\nomen is not so good. (_See Pin and Briar._) 498.\n\nPRIEST. To dream that a priest offers you service, or visits you for\nany purpose, is a sign that you will be robbed; if you dream you go to\none for advice, it foretells that some misfortune will overtake you:\nany dream about a priest is a bad one. 39.\n\nPRISON. (_See Jail._) To dream you are put in prison, foretells that\nhonor awaits you: but this omen does not apply to rogues or dishonest\npeople, though such a dream by them favors their desires: if a girl\ndreams that her lover has gone to prison, she will soon hear of his\nadvancement. 46.\n\nPRIZE. To dream of drawing a prize in the lottery, is a sign of poverty\nand misery: if you dream that you bought a lottery ticket with a\nmajority of odd numbers on it, you may perchance be successful with\nthose numbers, but even numbers are worthless in dreams. To dream of\ngetting prizes in any way is a bad omen. 4, 11, 44.\n\nPROCESSION. To dream of seeing a long military or civic procession,\nis a sign that some of your friends will come to poverty and ask your\nassistance; if you imagine that you are in such a procession yourself,\nit foretells that you will either make a loss, or be very short of\nmoney. 2.\n\nPROFIT. If a man dreams that he made a large and liberal profit by any\ntransaction or speculation, it foretells losses and disaster. 48, 16.\n\nPROMISE. To dream of broken promises on the part of a friend, is a sign\nthat he will confer a benefit on you: if a girl dreams that her lover\nhas broken his promise to marry, it foreshadows a speedy performance of\nthe ceremony. 3.\n\nPROPERTY. To dream of the loss of property, is a sign of good luck, and\nyou may calculate to acquire as much as you dreamed was lost, for such\ndreams always work contrariwise. 45, 1, 14.\n\nPROSTITUTE. For a young man to dream of associating with prostitutes,\nis a sign of poverty and disgrace: if he dreams of seeing these girls\nanywhere, it foretells misfortune or bad luck: for a girl to dream of\nthem, is a sign that her chastity is in danger. 35, 9.\n\nPROUD. To dream of proud people who disgust you, foretells that you\nwill rise in the world: a girl who dreams this of her lover, will\nprobably marry a rich or distinguished man. 3, 32, 13.\n\nPUDDING. To dream of a hard-boiled plum pudding, or a hard roll of\npudding of any kind, is a sign you will be invited to a dinner party;\nbut if you imagine the pudding looks soft and mussy, it foretells that\nyou will go to some entertainment where there will be a row. 19, 70.\n\nPULPIT. If any one dreams of going into a pulpit, it is a sign he or\nshe will visit a place of disrepute, as such dreams work contrariwise:\nfor a girl to dream that she assists in ornamenting or dressing a\npulpit, foretells that she will do some act that she afterwards\nregrets, because of an unworthy person being connected therewith. 62.\n\nPUMP. Dreaming of a pump is an excellent omen: if you dream of\npumping clear water from one, it shows that you will have good luck\nin business, or in a speculation: pumping dirty water is a sign of\nsickness. 29, 4, 20.\n\nPUNCH. To dream of making this beverage, or of drinking it, is a sign\nof poverty or disgrace; if a girl dreams that her lover treats her to\npunch, she had better discard him at once, as he will undoubtedly turn\nout to be a poor and shiftless fellow. 19, 32.\n\nPUNISHMENT. (_See Stick._) To dream of punishing a child, foretells\ngood fortune to the victim, and honors to yourself. For any one to\ndream of being punished by whipping, is a sign they will rise in the\nworld, or be honored for some act. 7.\n\nPURSE. To dream of finding an empty purse, shadows forth\ndisappointment; if the purse has plenty of money in it, your luck will\nbe excellent\u2014the more money, the better fortune: if it has in it large\ngold pieces, or large bills, you will become rich either by marriage or\ninheritance. 78.\n\nPUTTY. To dream of putty, is a sign of poverty: puttying up holes\nforetells losses\u2014the larger the hole, the more extensive the loss. If\nyou are putting glass into a window with putty, it foretells that you\nwill soon remove into a meaner place than you now occupy. 6, 4.\n\nPUZZLE. To dream of bothering your brains with a puzzle, foretells\nfrivolity; if you succeed, you will do something that works to your\ndisadvantage: if you imagine that the puzzle puzzles you, it is a sign\nthat some silly person will do you an unintentional injury. 21, 17.\n\nQUAIL. To dream of these birds is a good omen: if you imagine you see\nyoung quail feeding, it is a sign of thrift, particularly to farmers:\nto be successful in shooting them in the proper season, also foretells\ngood luck and success in any undertaking. 76, 14.\n\nQUAKER. To dream of business intercourse with genuine broad-brims,\nis a sign you will make a bad bargain. If, in your dream, you see a\nconcourse of quakers, it foretells that you will not be fortunate in\nbusiness matters. This omen is supposed to be predicated on the fact\nthat the Quakers monopolize all the good chances when they are around.\n24, 30.\n\nQUARREL. To dream of quarreling with a stranger, is a sign you will\nmake a new friend or acquaintance; if you imagine that you quarrel with\na friend, it shows that you will soon have a pleasant and agreeable\ntime with him: lovers who dream of quarrels, will be apt to bill and\ncoo harder than ever. 2, 12, 24.\n\nQUEEN. For a man to dream of seeing a queen, foretells the loss of\nmoney, either by robbery or bad debts: if he is presented to a queen,\nthe dream is still worse in respect to losses. 39, 60.\n\nQUICKSILVER. (_See Metals._)\n\nQUILTING. If a lady dreams of going to a quilting party, it foretells\nfor her and her family thrift and good luck: gentlemen, who dream of\nbeing much entertained at such a party, will have the very best success\nin love matters. 71, 54.\n\nQUINCES. To dream of quinces, is an excellent omen: if you imagine you\nare gathering quinces from trees full of fine-looking, yellow ones, it\npredicts that you will get just so much yellow gold, which will be a\nfortune. 49, 6.\n\nQUOITS. If a man dreams he is playing quoits, it is a sign he will soon\nhave a quarrel. If a woman dreams she is playing quoits, it foretells\nshe will have much trouble through life. To dream of quoits, is not a\ngood omen to lovers. 57, 3.\n\nRABBITS. To dream of these animals, foretells many small children: if\na newly married woman dreams of them it is a sign that she will have\ntwins or triplets within a year: such a dream will not be very pleasant\nto a young girl unless she means to marry right sudden, for rabbits do\nnot predict anything else but breeding children. 44, 13.\n\nRACCOON. To dream of simply treeing a raccoon, is a good omen, for you\nwill probably either gain a sum of money, or have it left to you as a\nlegacy: if you imagine that you shoot the animal, and he falls to the\nground, this will spoil the luck; you should stop dreaming as soon as\nthe \u2019coon is up the tree. 61, 12.\n\nRACES. (_See Run._) To dream of running a race on foot and winning\nit, is a sign of success in any undertaking\u2014losing it, foretells\ndisappointment. If you dream of going to a horse-race, it predicts\npoverty and shiftlessness. 46, 7.\n\nRADISHES. To dream of this vegetable, signifies that a secret will be\ndiscovered, which will occasion a muss in the family. To a girl, it is\na sign she will lose her beau, and to a lover, it foreshadows he will\nbe \u202f\u201ccut out\u201d by some other nice young man. 38, 13.\n\nRAFFLE. Raffling in your dream is the same as gambling; it foretells\npoverty and disgrace: to dream of raffling for poultry is a sign that\nyour family (if you have one) will want bread; if you are single, it\nshows that you will be apt to get seedy and loaferish. 8, 44.\n\nRAFT. To dream of seeing a raft foretells a journey\u2014the longer the\nraft, the more extensive the line of travel: if you dream of sailing\non a raft, it is a sign you will travel, with good success, in distant\ncountries. 10.\n\nRAGE. (_See Anger._) If you dream that you are in a great rage in\nconsequence of a mishap, or disagreeable event, it is a sign that some\npleasant episode in connection therewith will occur to put you in an\nexcellent humor, as such dreams work contrariwise. 44, 16.\n\nRAGGED. To dream that your clothes are ragged, indicates that a young\ngirl will banter you: if, in your dream, you see ragged people, it is a\nsign that you will suffer ridicule at your next meeting with a party of\nladies and gentlemen. Rags and ridicule go together in dreams. 19.\n\nRAILROAD. To dream of traveling by railroad, foretells to people who\nkeep house that they will break up their establishment: to young\npersons it indicates the loss of their home: to lovers it is a sign\nthat if they marry they will not keep house long, if at all. 3, 11, 33.\n\nRAIN. To dream of a gentle rain is a good omen, as it foretells success\nin any undertaking: if you dream of a violent rain-storm accompanied\nby wind and thunder and lightning, it predicts much trouble and\nmisfortune, though ultimate success in your undertakings. 21, 72.\n\nRAINBOW. It is an excellent dream to imagine you see a brilliant\nrainbow\u2014the brighter the better: it denotes health and general\nprosperity: to lovers it foretells a happy marriage, and riches. A\nyoung girl who dreams of a rainbow will either get an agreeable lover\nor a present. 45.\n\nRAKING. For a girl to dream of raking newly mown hay, is a sign she\nwill be married before the hay is eaten: young fellows who dream of\nraking hay with their sweethearts had better get ready their necks for\nthe matrimonial noose, as they are past praying for. 4, 11.\n\nRAM. To dream that a ram runs at you for butting purposes, shadows\nforth to a young man that his society will be coveted by the girls, and\nthat he will be fortunate in love matters generally: if a girl dreams\nthis, she will probably have her choice of lovers, as all the young\nfellows around there will fall in love with her: if the ram succeeds in\nbutting her, she will surely be taken captive and brought as Cupid\u2019s\nprisoner into the matrimonial ranks. 19.\n\nRAPE. If a female (married or single) dreams of an outrage on her\nperson, (whether attempted, or successful,) it is a sign that some one\nof the opposite sex is in love with her: if she is married, the dream\nalludes to some man other than her husband. Such dreams bode no good.\n31.\n\nRASPBERRIES. To dream of an abundance of this fruit is a sign of health\nand riches: if you dream you are eating raspberries, it shows that you\nwill be engaged in some enterprise that will bring you in a good deal\nof cash, most of which will be spent lavishly. 3, 66.\n\nRATS. (_See Trap and Mouse._) To dream of rats is a sign that thieves\nare around: if you see any of these animals, it shows that some friend\nwill be robbed, but if you hear them gnawing, you will suffer a loss\nfrom robbery yourself. If a girl, who has a lover, dreams of rats, she\nhad better be careful and not let him be too free with her person, or\nhe may rob her of that which cannot be restored. 54, 21.\n\nRAVEN. (_See Crow._)\n\nREADING. To dream you are reading, indicates you will be successful in\nyour love; in trade, it is particularly propitious; but if it appear to\nbe painful or irksome to read, it signifies that you shall not succeed\nwithout exertion, 65, 2.\n\nREAPING. (_See Harvest._) To dream of reaping grain is an excellent\nomen, as it foretells thrift and abundance, as well as plenty of money\nin gold; this applies to a prolific field of ripe yellow grain; if the\ngrain is meagre and looks rusty, the sign is entirely different, as it\nbetokens scarcity and penury. 4, 11, 44.\n\nRELATIONS. If you dream of being annoyed at home by your relations,\nit is a sign that you will be the subject of much scandal: if, on the\ncontrary, you imagine that your relatives visit you and give you great\npleasure by their society, it foretells that you are talked about a\ngood deal, but always with respect and veneration. 70.\n\nRELIGIOUS. For any one to dream of becoming religious, foretells that\nthey will be cheated or swindled in some way, as such a dream works\ncontrariwise: if you dream that a minister, or any religious person,\nexhorts you to become pious, you had better look out sharp, for some\nrogue is around, contriving how to victimize you. 54.\n\nRENT. To dream of paying your rent foretells that you will get some\nmoney unexpectedly; but if you dream that you owe it, without having\nthe money to pay, and are worried in consequence, it foreshadows a loss\nof property. 3.\n\nREPRIEVE. If a criminal under sentence of death dream of a reprieve or\npardon, he may make up his mind that it is all over with him; and if\nany friend, who is interested in his fate, dreams this, it amounts to\nabout the same thing. 76, 5.\n\nREPTILE. To dream of any animal that is called a reptile, such as\nsnakes, toads, alligators, and the like, is a sign of a quarrel: if you\nimagine you are bitten, it shows that you will come out second best,\nor badly injured either in person or reputation. If a girl dreams of a\nreptile, let her look sharp that her lover don\u2019t play her false. 34, 3.\n\nRESCUE. If you dream of rescuing anyone from peril, it is a sign you\nwill rise in the world, either by means of increased wealth, or new\nhonors: to dream that you are rescued from drowning or from any other\nmode of death, shows that you will go into some successful business\nspeculation with a partner. To lovers, such a dream foretells a speedy\nand happy union. 64, 9.\n\nRESIGN. If a person who holds an office, or a trust of any kind,\ndreams of resigning, it is a sign of advancement: to any one who cannot\nbe advanced, it shows that he will rise above his present position in\nsociety. 41, 17.\n\nRESUSCITATE. To dream of resuscitating a drowned person, foretells that\nyou will engage in some enterprise that attracts public attention: if\nthe person thus brought to life is a female, it shadows forth marriage\nwith a lady of public fame. 16, 9, 78.\n\nREVENGE. To dream of revenging an injury, is a sign of disgrace: if, in\nyour dream, you imagine that you have caused any one to be locked up in\nprison from motives of revenge, it predicts that you yourself will be\nimprisoned for some degrading act. 74, 50.\n\nREVIVAL. To dream of a religious revival, or of being where a great\nmany people are holding a revival meeting, is a sign that you will go\ninto a disreputable public place and lose _caste_: if you take part in\nthe meeting, it foretells that you will come to disgrace, as all such\ndreams work contrariwise. 13, 57.\n\nREWARD. To dream of receiving a reward for any act which is a public\nbenefit, such as detecting a criminal, is a sign that you will have\nhonors conferred upon you: if you dream of getting a reward for finding\nmoney or other property, it foreshadows good fortune and riches. 41.\n\nRHEUMATISM. To dream of this painful disease, is an omen of health:\nif you imagine a friend is thus afflicted, it shows that he will soon\noffer to do you a favor, or benefit you in some way. 52, 16.\n\nRHINOCEROS. To dream of this East India animal, denotes success to the\nman of business, but disappointment in love matters; but to dream they\ninjure you, is unfavorable to the dreamer. If you dream you see one\ndead, you\u2019ll soon leave a relative. 47.\n\nRIBBONS. For a girl to dream that she has got new, and beautiful\nribbons on her bonnet or dress, is a sign some one will flatter her to\nher disadvantage: if she does not like the ribbon, it shows that she\nwill hear of some scandal relative to herself; and if the ribbon is\nred, the scandal will impeach her chastity. 39, 6.\n\nRICE. To dream of eating rice, denotes health: if you imagine that you\nsee large quantities of rice, it foretells to one who does not live in\na rice country, a successful and pleasant journey; and to those who\nlive there, it predicts gain and riches. 12, 2, 24.\n\nRICH. To dream you are rich or that you have inherited a fortune, is\na sign of poverty and bad luck; but if you imagine that some one pays\nyou large sums of money enough to make you rich, your dream will be\nrealized so far that you will acquire property. If a person dreams that\na legacy is paid to him in money, it has an entirely different meaning\nfrom a dream that you are enriched from a legacy, but do not see the\nmoney. 15, 3.\n\nRIDING. (_See Carriage, Stage-coach, and Gig._) To dream you are\nriding, if it be with a woman, is unfortunate: in trade, decay of\nbusiness; in love, disappointments; but if it be with men, then, by\ncare, the reverse of these things will happen. Riding in a railcar, or\na stage, foretells success in business matters. 6, 12, 72.\n\nRING. For a lady to dream that a gentleman presents her with a ring, or\nthat she has a ring belonging to a gentleman, is a sign of a wedding.\nIf a young man dreams that he has got a lady\u2019s ring, the omen is\nsimilar. To dream of finding a ring, foretells that the person finding\nit will marry within a year. 4, 20.\n\nRIOT. To dream of a public tumult or riot, is a sign of scarcity and\nbad crops to farmers, and dull business to tradesmen and mechanics:\nif any friend or relative is injured in the riot, you or they will\nprobably suffer from misfortune, but if they are successful and pacify\nthe crowd, it foretells that you will overcome your difficulties. 2.\n\nRIVAL. For a lover to dream that he has a rival who annoys him, is a\nsign that he is in high favor with his sweetheart; such a dream to a\nyoung lady has a similar omen, and she has only to name the happy day\nto settle the matter to her mind. 1, 70.\n\nRIVER. To dream of crossing a large and clear river, foretells\na splendid fortune: if the water is muddy or riled, it predicts\ndifficulties, but they will be overcome provided you get safe over the\nriver without accident. If a girl dreams this, it is a sign she will\ntravel somewhere and get a rich husband. 34, 20.\n\nROBBERY. (_See Thief and Stealing._)\n\nROBIN. To dream of seeing robins around your house, is a good omen, as\nit foretells abundance to farmers and success to any one; if you do not\nsee them, but hear them trilling, it foreshadows sickness, and perhaps\ndeath. 6.\n\nROCKET. To dream of seeing rockets flying in the air, foretells joy and\ngladness at some event about to happen: to married people it denotes\nthe birth of a child, or the marriage of a daughter if they have one\nold enough. If a young girl dreams of seeing a rocket, she needn\u2019t\ntrouble herself further, as her speedy marriage is certain. 15.\n\nROCKING-CHAIR. (_See Chair._)\n\nROCKS. (_See Mountain._)\n\nROOSTER. (_See Cock._) If a girl dreams of hearing a cock crow, it\nforetells that she will soon have a new lover; if a lover dreams this,\nit is a sign that he has a formidable rival: if a married man or woman\ndreams of roosters, it shows that some outsider is enamored of the\nwife. 10, 19.\n\nROSE. To dream of roses is a sign of troubles: the old saying that\nevery rose has its thorn, is exemplified in such a dream, because every\nrose you see brings along a trouble: dreaming of white roses signifies\na marriage which will bring much vexation. 47, 9.\n\nROSEMARY. To the married, denotes loss of their mates and children; to\nthe lover, trouble through his or her sweetheart. 49, 7.\n\nROTTEN. To dream of rotten things of any kind (except eggs), foretells\nsickness and death: to imagine that you handle rotten eggs, foreshadows\ndisgrace. 35.\n\nROWING. To dream of rowing a boat in clear water, is a sign of\ngood luck generally: if the water is muddy, it shows trouble and\ndifficulties which may be overcome; if a lover dreams of rowing a boat\nwith his lady-love in it, he will doubtless make a happy match, 20.\n\nRUDDER. To dream of a broken rudder in a boat or vessel in which you\nare sailing, foretells that one of the persons who you imagine are in\nthe boat, will be drowned, or come to a sudden death. 27, 75.\n\nRUIN. If you dream that you are looking at old ruins, or castles, or\nbuildings, it is a sign you will travel in distant countries: to dream\nof the ruins of a house that has been burnt down, foretells that you\nwill experience a loss of property: if, in your dream, you see the\nruins of a house that has fallen down, it denotes the death of a friend\nor acquaintance. 5, 12, 60.\n\nRUN. (_See Race._) To dream of running swift, is a sign of good success\nin your undertakings; but if you stumble or fall, it denotes accidents\nor misfortune: if you imagine that you see people run, while you are\nstill, it foretells disappointment. 7.\n\nRUST. To dream of rust is a bad omen: rusty knives, or tools of any\nkind, denote the destruction of property: rusty pails or utensils are\nso many signs of poverty. 54.\n\nRYE. To dream of this grain is a sign you will be fortunate in money\nmatters; it also foretells success in love affairs: to the married it\nforeshadows domestic happiness. 69.\n\nSAFFRON. To dream of gathering saffron, or of drinking a decoction\nof the herb, is a sign of health and wealth: if the flowers that you\ngather look clear and healthy, it foretells that you will get just so\nmuch gold. 19, 24.\n\nSAILING. To dream of fair sailing on clear water, is an excellent omen,\nas it foretells abundance and success: heavy winds that endanger your\nboat, or muddy waters, point out difficulties which will probably be\novercome. (_See Boat, Yacht and Ship._) 20.\n\nSAUSAGES. To dream of eating fried sausages, foretells that you\nwill come in contact with some person who is very poor, and will be\ndisagreeable to you: a girl who dreams this, will be very sure to get a\nshiftless and needy lover, and perhaps marry him if she is in much of a\nhurry to get married. 38, 16.\n\nSAWING. To dream of sawing wood, or boards, foretells that you will do\nsomething that you will afterwards regret: if a young fellow dreams\nthis, he will probably offer some indignity to his sweetheart, which he\nwill find it hard work to get overlooked. 3, 17, 55.\n\nSCAFFOLD. To dream of going upon a high scaffold, shows that you will\nrise in the world: if, in your dream, you imagine that you fall from a\nscaffold, or from any high place, it shadows forth a misfortune that\nwill make you poorer: a girl who dreams of climbing upon a scaffold,\nwill positively marry a rich man, or one of distinction, who is far\nabove her in position. 33, 7.\n\nSCALDED. To dream of being scalded with hot water, is usually a sign of\ninjuries by the elements; it may foretell losses by floods, by fire, or\nby winds, or by thunder-storms: if you dream of scalding your tongue\nwith hot tea, it is a sign that you will scandalize a neighbor with\nsome ill-natured remark. 3, 12, 36.\n\nSCALES. To dream you are weighing any article, is a good omen, and\nsignifies that you will be happy and long-lived; but to dream you see\nanother using the scales, is a sign you will be ruined by law-suits.\n68, 40.\n\nSCARCITY. To dream of a scarcity of anything is a sign that some of\nthe article dreamed about is on its way to you; as if a farmer were to\ndream of a scarcity of hay, it shows that his next hay crop will be\nvery abundant; or, if a girl should dream of a scarcity of compliments,\nshe will probably be overwhelmed by them from gentlemen, when she next\ngoes into company. 27, 9.\n\nSCHOOL. To dream of attending school, is a sign of advancement and good\nfortune: if you dream of studying, and succeed well, it shadows forth\nthat you will rise to a position in society above your present one: if\nyou find it difficult to learn, you will have trouble in getting along,\nbut will rise at last. 42, 72.\n\nSCISSORS. To dream of a pair of scissors, is a sign of a marriage; if\na girl dreams of them she will positively be married within a year:\nto a married woman such a dream is a bad omen, as it denotes some gay\nseducer will flatter her, and probably succeed in enticing her from the\npath of virtue. Here is an old prediction in rhyme: 47.\n\n To dream of scissors\u2014a full pair,\n Tells a fair maid that soon she\u2019ll marry;\n But to a wife it doth declare\n Her chastity will e\u2019en miscarry!\n\nSCOLD. For a man to dream he has a scolding, shrewish wife, is a sign\nthat he will be lucky in everything he undertakes: if a lover dreams\nthat his sweetheart scolds at him, it is a sign that her love is strong\nand unalterable. 65, 16.\n\nSCRATCH. To dream of having your face scratched, is a sign that\nsomebody has been disparaging your good looks: if a girl imagines in\nher dream that she has scratched herself with a pin, it foretells that\nscandal is afloat relative to her conduct with her lover, or some other\ngentleman. 3.\n\nSCREW. To dream of a small screw, is a good sign, and indicates success\nin all you undertake; but to dream of a large bed-screw portends\ntrouble brought about by love affairs. 4, 11, 44.\n\nSCYTHE. (_See Husbandry._)\n\nSEA. To dream of going to sea in a ship or steamer, is a sign that you\nwill be fortunate in money matters: storms and perils at sea foretell\ndifficulties which may be overcome: if you dream you are seasick, it\ndenotes continued health. If a girl dreams of going to sea, and having\na pleasant voyage, she will marry rich, and love her husband; but\nstorms and perils point to quarrels with him. 6.\n\nSECRET. If a young girl dreams that a friend has intrusted her with an\nimportant secret, it is a sign that the friend will become her enemy:\nif her lover tells her a secret, they will surely quarrel within a\nweek; if she dreams of disclosing a secret to a friend, she will be\nmuch vexed at some scandal that is afloat respecting her. 4, 2, 8.\n\nSEDUCER. If a young woman dreams that her lover\u2019s conduct is that of a\ngay seducer, she will find him to be very sincere in his attachment:\na married woman who dreams that she is over-persuaded by a seducer\nto yield to his desires, will come to much honor, as such dreams\nwork contrariwise. If a man dreams of seducing a virtuous girl, it\nforeshadows that he will be disgraced. 35, 8.\n\nSEGAR. (_See Tobacco._) To dream you are smoking a segar, is a sign you\nwill have misfortunes and troubles with your business matters: if you\nimagine the fire of your segar goes out, it is a sign you will meet\nwith losses: in love matters this dream is a bad omen. 49, 7, 9.\n\nSEPARATION. If a woman dreams that she is about to live separate from\nher husband, it promises that she will shortly find herself in the\nfamily way: such a dream to a man is a sign that some woman or girl,\nother than his wife, is in love with him. 26, 17.\n\nSERVANTS. (_See Domestics._) To dream that you are robbed by your\nservants, is a sign that some one among them that you think the most\nof is deceiving you: if, in your dream, you imagine you have had your\nsilver stolen by a servant, it shows that you will have a difficulty,\nand discharge one who will be replaced by a dishonest person. 71, 40,\n11.\n\nSHARK. To dream of seeing a shark in the water, is an excellent omen,\nas it foretells that you will escape a great danger that menaces you:\nif you dream of capturing the shark, you will soon thereafter get a big\nlump of money. Catching fish of any kind foretells money-getting. 31.\n\nSHAVE. For a man to dream that he is shaving, is a sign he will get in\ndebt: to dream that any one shaved you in a bargain, foretells that\nsome debt will be paid to you which you had given up as lost. 5, 7, 54.\n\nSHAWL. If a girl dreams of getting a new shawl, it foretells that she\nwill soon have a new beau who will be very attentive and affable. 3, 19.\n\nSHEEP. To dream of large flocks of sheep, is a sign of thrift and\nabundance, particularly to farmers, to whom the omen promises large\ncrops: if many of the sheep have young lambs, it foretells domestic\nhappiness and an excellent crop of children. 12, 5, 60.\n\nSHELL. (_See Oysters and Clams._) To dream you find an empty shell is a\nsign you will meet with losses in business, but if, in your dream, you\nimagine the shell to be full, it foretells you will be successful in\nall your undertakings. If you dream you are opening any kind of shell\nfish for others to eat it foreshadows that you will have plenty of\nfunds. 19, 53.\n\nSHERIFF. If you dream the sheriff is after you with a writ, or a\nwarrant, and that you dodge and escape him, it is a sign of bad luck\nand losses; but if he arrests and locks you up in prison, it foretells\nthat some good fortune is coming. Soon after such a dream you will be\nlucky in anything you undertake. 62, 21.\n\nSHIFT. (_See Linen and Smock._)\n\nSHIP. To dream of seeing a ship under full sail, while you stand on the\nshore, is a sign you will soon fall in love with a pretty girl, who\nwill favor your addresses; but if you see this ship while you are on\nthe water in some other vessel, it shows that your sweetheart will be\njealous of you. To dream of being shipwrecked and losing your property,\nforetells good luck in business matters, but quarrels in love affairs.\n29, 8.\n\nSHIRT. To dream that your shirt is ragged and without buttons, is\na sign of poverty: if you imagine that you have a new shirt, with\na stylish bosom, it foretells some disagreeable adventure in which\nyour self-esteem will be keenly wounded, such as being placed in a\nridiculous position before ladies, or before company in public. 44, 18.\n\nSHOES. (_See Boots._) If you dream that one of your shoes has a hole\nin it, it foretells that your sweetheart will offend you by favoring\na supposed rival: if a girl dreams this, her lover will be jealous\nof her: for a young man to dream that he has lost a shoe-string, is\na sign that he will be kissed by a lady with whom he had no previous\nacquaintance. 33.\n\nSHROUD. (_See Corpse._) To dream of a shroud is a sign of a wedding:\nto see, in your dream, a woman laid out in her shroud, foretells to a\nyoung person that he or she will either be present at a marriage, or\nwill become a victim of Cupid\u2019s archery. 39, 11.\n\nSICKNESS. (_See Disease._) If you dream you have had a long sickness,\nand are recovering, it foretells bad luck and difficulties: should\nyou imagine that you are sick and are going to die, the omen is the\nreverse, for some good fortune awaits you: if a girl dreams that she is\nsick abed, and her lover visits her, it foretells a smooth courtship\nand happy marriage. 2.\n\nSILKS. For a lady to dream of silks and satins, and that she is having\nfine dresses made of those fabrics, foretells poverty and want: if she\nimagines that she is presented with a plain cheap dress, and is pleased\nwith the present, it is a sign she will have some excellent luck; but\nif she dislikes it, it shows that she will refuse an offer that will\ncause her after regrets. 8, 7, 56.\n\nSILVER. (_See Metals._)\n\nSINGING. To dream of singing solemn music in a choir, is a sign of\nthe death of a young girl who is your esteemed friend or relative: to\nlovers, such a dream foretells the loss of sweethearts: if you imagine\nyou are singing some lively tune by yourself, it is a sign of sorrow,\nthough it may not be connected with any death. 34, 18.\n\nSINGLE. If a married woman dreams that she is single, and that\nattentions are being paid to her by a beau, it foretells that her\nhusband has become captivated by a new love, and will probably be false\nto his vows: the omen is similar to a married man who dreams that he is\neither a bachelor or widower. 69, 72.\n\nSISTER. (_See Brothers._) To dream you see your sister denotes a speedy\ndeath in your family, and that the dreamer will be long-lived: if you\nare in love, it is a favorable omen. 24, 8.\n\nSKATING. To dream of skating over smooth ice, and gliding along without\nmuch effort, is a sign of success and good luck: if you are skating\nwith ladies, it foretells that your love matters will go smoothly; if\nthe ice be broken or lumpy, it denotes difficulties; and if you imagine\nyou fall down, you will probably experience a misfortune or have great\ntrouble. 4, 7, 28.\n\nSKY. A clear sky denotes a marriage, speedy, and happy; a red sky,\nincrease of wealth; if you ascend into the sky, you may look for much\nhonor; a cloudy sky shows misfortune. 2, 11, 24.\n\nSLAUGHTER-HOUSE. To dream of being in an empty slaughter-house, shows\nthat you are in danger, but can avoid it by precaution. To see animals\nslaughtered is a good sign, if the blood flow freely; if the blood does\nnot flow, you will meet with some accident. 26, 12.\n\nSLAVE. To dream that a favorite slave has become ungrateful, and run\naway, is a sign that some one has been tampering with him or her,\nbut without effect; if, in your dream, you imagine that one of your\nfavorite negroes has been impertinent or neglectful, and is to be\nflogged, and that you feel bad about it, it shows that some one will\ntry to injure you through the medium of your slaves, and you should\ntherefore look sharp to the characters of white people around. 62, 4.\n\nSLEIGH-RIDE. To dream of a sleigh-ride, where the sleighing is good,\nand the sleigh glides free and noiseless, is an excellent omen, as it\nforetells success and good fortune generally, particularly to farmers:\nbut if you imagine the sleighing is poor, and that the runners screech\non the ground, it foretells trouble and unhappiness. Young men who\ndream of sleigh-riding with girls, stopping at taverns, drinking,\ngetting the girls boozy, and then performing unnamable pranks, are thus\nforewarned that they will be poor and shiftless, as such dreams are\ncertain omens of misery and disgrace. 67, 46.\n\nSLIDING. (_See Ice._) To dream of sliding on smooth ice, foretells good\nluck: if a girl dreams that a young man assists her in sliding, and\nthat she enjoys it, she will soon get an agreeable lover: ragged or wet\nice, or holes in the ice, foreshadow difficulties. If a girl dreams\nof falling down on the ice, and that her lover falls with her, and\novertops her, they may as well go to the parson at once, and have the\nknot tied, as it is a sure thing to happen. 4, 28.\n\nSMALL-POX. (_See Sores._) To dream that you have this disease,\nforetells health and good fortune: if a lover should be so ungallant,\nas to imagine that his sweetheart is thus afflicted, it is a sign that\nhe will marry a great beauty; if she happens to be a beauty, it will be\nall right, of course; if not, he will look out for number two. 41, 32.\n\nSMOCK. (_See Linen._) If a girl dreams that she has a ragged\nundergarment, it foretells that some rich greenhorn will try to seduce\nher, and failing, will offer her marriage: if she dreams that she has\na good supply of beautiful worked undergarments, it is a sign that she\nwill sigh in vain for a lover; if she imagines that a gentleman gives\nher a new smock, she will be in danger of losing her chastity. 12.\n\nSMOKE. To dream of being in a room full of smoke, foretells that you\nwill engage in an angry controversy, and perhaps quarrel: lovers who\ndream of smoke, will nose out the fire when they next meet, and it will\nprove to be either one of anger or of lust. 76, 5.\n\nSNAKE. To dream of snakes is a sign of an enemy, or that some one is\nslandering you; it also denotes quarrels and angry disputes: if an\nengaged young lady dreams of them, she had better ascertain positively\nwhether her lover is all right before she marries him. 47, 50.\n\nSNEEZE. To dream you sneeze, is a sign of long life. 55.\n\nSNOW. (_See Sleigh-Ride and Thaw._) To dream that the ground is covered\nwith clean, white snow, is a sign of joy and pleasure: if you walk in\nit, it foretells that you will go on a pleasant journey; to eat it,\ndenotes health: if the snow is dirty, or melted in patches, you will\nhave troubles, but they will not amount to much. To dream of a regular\nstorm, is a sign you will be very successful in all your love and\nbusiness affairs. 21, 67, 46.\n\nSNUFF. (_See Tobacco._)\n\nSNUFFERS. (_See Candles._) To dream of snuffing out a candle, is a sign\nof a death in the family: if you imagine that you snuff it too short,\nwithout putting it out, it foretells that you will do something that\nwill make a female friend shed tears. 40.\n\nSOAP. Signifies trouble in business, but it will soon depart. 66, 3, 11.\n\nSOLDIER\u2019S DRUM. (_See Zouave, Parade and Procession._)\n\nSORES. To dream of your body being covered with blotches, shows that a\ngreat fortune will fall to you. To have the arms full of sores, shows\nill success in business. 19, 74.\n\nSOW. To dream of a sow with a large litter of pigs, denotes abundance\nto a farmer, but is a sign of ill-health to a tradesman or mechanic: if\na girl dreams this, it foretells that she will soon marry a man in bad\nhealth. 4, 12, 48.\n\nSPIDER. To dream that you see a spider coming toward you, is a sign\nthat some one will soon pay you money: if you imagine that the spider\nspins down before your face, the omen is similar, for you will make a\ngood lot of money in some way. If a married woman dreams of seeing a\nlarge spider, it foretells that she will have a miscarriage, which she\nwill not be sorry for. 72, 16.\n\nSPY-GLASS. To dream of looking through one of these instruments and\nobserving objects at a distance, is a sign that you will enlarge your\npossessions; if you are a farmer, you will add to your farm; if a man\nof business, enlarge your business, &c.; but to a poor devil who hasn\u2019t\ngot much of anything, it predicts that he will increase his family for\nthe want of something else to enlarge. 14.\n\nSQUINTING. (_See Eye._) If a girl dreams of seeing a good-looking young\nman who squints, it is a sign that some one has fallen in love with\nher, and only waits an opportunity to demonstrate his passion: if a\ngentleman dreams that his sweetheart squints, it foretells that she is\nthinking about some one else rather than him, and would not break her\nheart if he refused to \u202f\u201ccome to tea.\u201d 49.\n\nSQUIRREL. To dream of these animals is a sign of good fortune; they\ndenote abundant crops to a farmer, and success to any one: if a man\ndreams of being bitten by a squirrel, it foretells that he will lose\nsomething by robbery; if he catches the animal when it bites him, and\nputs it in a cage, the omen is different, for he will have a piece of\ngood luck\u2014though a robbery may be mixed up in it. 21.\n\nSTABLE. To dream of a stable denotes hospitality and good\nentertainment. 2, 11.\n\nSTAGE-COACH. To dream of riding in one signifies good luck in business:\nif you run after one, you will be out of employment for a long season:\nto see one pass, will rid you of troublesome friends. If you are in a\nstage-coach and it turns over without injuring you, you will be lucky\nin your speculations; if you dream you are killed by the fall, you must\nexpect misfortune. (_See Riding and Coach._) 6, 12, 72.\n\nSTAIN. For a girl to dream of stains on her dress, is a sign of\nscandal: if she imagines that the stains are in front, she will be\naccused of an improper intimacy with a gentleman; if on the right\nsleeve, it will be insinuated that she took what did not belong to her;\nif on the left sleeve, some one will be disparaging her veracity. If a\nlover dreams that his sweetheart\u2019s dress is stained behind, it shows\nthat she is untrue to him. 65, 13.\n\nSTARS. (_See Night._) To dream of seeing multitudes of bright stars\nin a clear sky, is a sign (to a lady) that she will have a great many\nchildren, and troops of good friends: to a man of business, such a\ndream denotes as many customers as he sees stars in a clear sky. If a\ngirl dreams of seeing stars, and notices one or more to be brighter\nthan the rest, those bright ones are lovers, and the small ones are her\nchildren or friends. 4, 19.\n\nSTATUE. To dream of marble statues is a sign of advancement; those who\nimagine that they see beautiful statuary will be sure to rise above\ntheir present position in society. 3, 13.\n\nSTEALING. (_See Thief._) If you dream of being robbed, it is a sign\nthat you will make a good speculation of some kind; to dream of\nstealing any particular article yourself, foretells that you will soon\nwant just that thing; thus, if you imagine that you steal money, you\nwill be badly in want of some. 49, 16.\n\nSTEEL. (_See Metals._)\n\nSTEEPLE. (_See Tower._) To dream of going up to the top of a steeple,\nand looking off at a distance, is a sign that you will increase your\nproperty or effects: if a girl dreams this, it foretells that she will\nmarry above her present position. 6.\n\nSTICK. To hold a stick foretells mourning; to use it as a prop,\ninstability of fortune; to any one with it shows that you are\ncharitable; to receive a beating with one, predicts you will better\nyour position in life. 7, 7[TN: illegible].\n\nSTILLBORN. If a woman dreams that she gives birth to a stillborn child,\nit foretells that her next child will be an uncommon bright one: a\nchildless woman who dreams this, will realize her fondest hopes. 49, 77.\n\nSTING. To dream of being stung by a bee or wasp, foretells an injury\nby unjust and scandalous reports: a young lady who dreams that a bee\nstings her, will probably have her chastity questioned. 64, 18.\n\nSTOCKINGS. To dream of cotton-stockings, foretells moderate happiness;\nof silk, poverty. To take them off, denotes the reception of money.\nStockings with holes in them, signify the loss of property. 47, 71.\n\nSTORM. (_See Rain, Hail and Snow._) To dream of a devastating storm,\nforetells losses and trouble: a violent rain-storm denotes that you\nwill have good luck, but that misfortunes will nevertheless injure your\nprospects: gentle showers promise the luck without the adverse omen.\n21, 72.\n\nSTOVE. To dream of a stove is a sign of wealth, if there be a fire in\nit; but if cold, a sign of poverty. 8, 60.\n\nSTRANGER. For a girl to dream that she is kissed by a stranger,\npromises her a new lover: a married woman who dreams this will probably\nsoon present her husband with a stranger in the shape of a new baby,\nand he will unhappily doubt its paternity. 62, 8.\n\nSTRAW. To dream of a bundle of straw denotes abundance; if scattered\nabout, poverty. 4, 51, 78.\n\nSTRAWBERRIES. To dream of this fruit, denotes success in love affairs,\nand a happy marriage. 39, 78.\n\nSUCKLE. (_See Wet-Nurse._) If a married woman dreams of suckling a\nchild, it foretells that she will soon give birth to another; should\na bachelor dream of seeing a child suckled, he had better make up his\nmind that he will soon have a young lady\u2019s board to pay, whether he\nmarries or not; but as the latter would be the better course let him be\nlooking round for a wife at once. A married man who dreams this, will\nsoon become a happy father. 7, 9, 63.\n\nSUGAR. To dream of sugar denotes purity: if a lover dreams that his\nsweetheart presents him with white loaf-sugar, it shows that her\naffection for him is pure and disinterested; it is therefore a good\nsign for him to dream of taking tea with her, as she would naturally\nput such sugar in his tea: to dream of sugar of any kind, or sugar\ncandy, is an excellent omen. 19, 48.\n\nAn old prediction runs as follows:\n\n Dreams of sugar and sweetmeat,\n Or drinking wine with pleasure great,\n And all dreams pleasant in condition,\n Show sports of love, and love\u2019s fruition.\n\nSUN. To dream that the sun blinds you, foretells that you will be\noverwhelmed with good fortune: to see a beautiful bright sun, is a sign\nof success in anything you may undertake: a red sun denotes mishaps\nand accidents: if the sun looks dim and smoky, it foreshadows trouble\nand difficulties. To dream of seeing the sun rise brings good news and\nluck; the setting sun, misfortune. 2, 10, 20.\n\nSWALLOWS. To dream of these birds, is a good omen, as it foretells\nhealth and abundant crops to farmers: if you dream of killing a\nswallow, it is a sign of a misfortune; if you catch the bird, you will\nhave splendid luck and get plenty of money; but if, after capturing,\nyou dream you let him go, a fortune will slip through your fingers. 25.\n\nSWAN. To dream of a white swan, signifies riches; a black one, domestic\nsorrow. Its song denotes death. 9, 18.\n\nSWEARING. (_See Blasphemy._) To dream that you hear violent\naltercations and profane swearing, is a sign that you will lose caste,\nand go down in the world: if a man dreams that in his anger he curses\nand swears, it foretells that he will come to poverty. 72, 4.\n\nSWEEPING. For a girl to dream of sweeping the house, foretells that a\nlover will soon make his appearance: if a married woman dreams this, it\nshows that some outsider is charmed with her, and may venture to make\ndishonorable proposals. 39, 12.\n\nSWIMMING. To dream of swimming is an excellent omen, as it foretells\nsuccess and good fortune generally: if you dream you are swimming, or\nbathing in clear water with ladies, it predicts that you will soon\nmarry the one of your choice, particularly if she be present; and to\ndream you are naked and swimming in clear water, is a sign of excellent\nluck in business matters. 54, 18.\n\nSWORD. To dream of having a sword, is a sign of poverty: if you dream\nof seeing a man flourish one of these weapons, it foretells you will\nmake a loss. A young girl who imagines her lover wears a sword, had\nbetter give up all ideas of silks and satins, and learn how to cook and\nwash, for she will be a poor man\u2019s wife. 17.\n\nTABLE-CLOTH. To dream of a dirty table-cloth foretells that you will\nhave plenty to eat. 51.\n\nTAILOR. If a girl dreams that she has a tailor for her beau, and is\npleased with him, it is a sign that she will marry a softly sort of\na fellow, who will allow her to be both master and mistress after\nmarriage. Here is a popular rhyme in illustration: 19, 70.\n\n The maid who dreams a tailor she would wed,\n Will marry one who\u2019ll be a log in bed;\n And she\u2019ll be master, too, of all his riches,\n And, in the vulgar parlance, \u202f\u201cwear the breeches!\u201d\n\nTALL. If a young lady dreams that her beau is a very tall man, it is a\nsign that her future husband will be a \u202f\u201cwee bit of a fellow,\u201d and not\nof much account. 4.\n\nTAMARINDS. To dream of tamarinds shows much vexation and uneasiness\nthrough a woman, bad success in trade, a rainy season, and news from\nbeyond sea that is disagreeable: in love they denote disappointment.\n77, 16.\n\nTANNERY. To dream of being in a tannery is a sign of health and riches:\nif a girl dreams that her beau is a tanner, she will probably get a\ngood husband, and one who is well off, and will live to a good old age,\nfor your tanners are usually tough customers. 52, 7.\n\nTAR. To dream of tar is a sign you will travel by water: if you dream\nyou get it on your hands or clothes, it shows that you will have\ndifficulties; and to imagine you accidentally seat yourself on tar, and\nget stuck to the seat, foretells that you will be detained against your\nwill in some foreign country. 12, 6, 72.\n\nTAVERN. (_See Inn._)\n\nTEA. To dream of drinking tea, or being present at a tea-party, is a\nsign of thrift and domestic happiness: a girl who dreams of meeting her\nlover at such a party, or of drinking tea with him, may be sure that\nhe\u2019s all right, and she can close her matrimonial bargain with him at\nonce without any risk. 61, 19.\n\nTEARS. To dream of shedding tears of sympathy, is a sign that some one\nis in love with you; this applies to both sexes, but more particularly\nto girls who cry easy: if you imagine you cry from grief, some good\nfortune awaits you, and you will have riches in proportion to the tears\nshed: if you dream that you shed tears from vexation, it shows that you\nwill experience a loss just in proportion to the tears, or that some\none will injure your prospects by circulating a scandal. 14.\n\nTEETH. To dream you lose your teeth, denotes the loss of friends,\ntroubles, and misfortunes; to the lover it shows the loss of your\nsweetheart\u2019s affections: to dream you cut a new tooth, denotes the\nbirth of a child who will make a figure in the world. 33, 11, 2.\n\nTELEGRAPH. To dream of one denotes tidings from abroad, in a short\nspace of time, and still more speedily if you think the telegraph is at\nwork. 47, 10, 78.\n\nTELESCOPE. (_See Spy-Glass._) To dream of looking through a telescope\nat a distance over farm lands, is a sign you will either purchase a\nfarm or inherit one: if you dream of looking at the stars, it shows\nthat you will rise in the world\u2014if at the moon, and you are delighted\nwith the view, it predicts for you great riches. 7, 14.\n\nTEMPEST. (_See Storm._) To dream of long-continuing and great tempests,\nsignifies affliction, troubles, dangers, losses and perils; to the\npoor, repose. 57, 8.\n\nTEN-PINS. To dream of playing ten-pins, foretells disgrace; if the\ncentre pin falls, one of the players will die; if many pins fall, all\nof the players will suffer loss. 10, 2, 20.\n\nTHAW. To dream of a thaw, and walking in splashy snow, foretells\ntrouble and losses: if a young fellow dreams that he walks through\nsplashy snow to go a courting, it is a sign that he will quarrel with\nhis sweetheart. 34, 18.\n\nTHEATRE. For a young man to dream of taking his sweetheart to the\ntheatre, is a sign that she will favor a new beau: if he dreams\nof going to the theatre alone, and seeing his lady-love among the\naudience, it shows that she has already seen and spoken to a gentleman\nthat she likes better than him: if a lady dreams this of her beau, the\nomen is similar. 2, 4, 8.\n\nTHIEF. (_See Stealing._) To dream that thieves break into your house\nand rob you, is a sign of honor or profit\u2014the greater the robbery, the\nmore extensive will be your good fortune: if you dream that you catch a\nthief and deliver him over to the officers of justice, it denotes that\nyou will have trouble in connection with your good fortune. 49, 16, 3.\n\nTHIRST. If any one dream of thirst or of drinking water, if the water\nappear clear and acceptable, he will live joyfully and become wealthy;\nif the water be troubled, warm, or offensive, it forewarns him that\nwithout prudence, he will end his days in affliction. 20, 49.\n\nTHORN. For a girl to dream of accidentally sticking a thorn into her\nfinger is a sign she will have a ring presented to her, probably a\nwedding ring: if a married woman dreams this, some outsider will make\nlove to her by first offering a ring. If any one dreams of sticking a\nthorn in either foot or leg, it foretells improper intimacy with the\nopposite sex which will not end in disgrace, but in marriage: married\npeople who dream this will do the same thing and not be found out. 39.\n\nTHROAT. For a married woman to dream that her throat is sore, or\nswelled, or out of order, is a sign she is in the family way; and a\ngirl who dreams this had better be careful and keep pretty clear of the\nyoung fellows, for fear of accidents. 60, 18.\n\nTHUMB. If a girl dreams that her beau hurts her by pinching her thumb,\nit is a sign that if she marries him she will have to get her own\nliving, and help to support him besides: for a man to dream of losing\nhis thumb, or of an injury to it, foretells poverty\u2014on the contrary, to\ndream of a big thumb denotes much wealth. 36, 5.\n\nTHUNDER. To dream of heavy thunder denotes large crops to farmers: to\ntradesmen, mechanics, or speculators, it foretells a big business, or\na successful speculation: if you are terrified by thunder, so much the\nbetter. 51.\n\nTIGER. To dream of seeing one of these animals in a rage, is a sign\nthat you have a treacherous friend who will endanger your reputation:\nto see, in your dream, a sleeping or quiet tiger, foretells that you\nwill soon make the acquaintance of a treacherous or unworthy person. If\na girl dreams this, she had better be suspicious of the next young man\nwho offers her his attentions. 59, 62.\n\nTOAD. To dream of seeing a toad is a sign of a rain storm: if, in your\ndream, you see multitudes of small toads, it foretells good crops to\nfarmers, and excellent luck to anybody: if a newly married woman dreams\nthis, it shadows forth that she will have as many smart children as\nshe sees toads\u2014three or four at a time, perhaps\u2014and if she don\u2019t, her\nhusband will beget them elsewhere. 3.\n\nTOBACCO. For a boy to dream of chewing tobacco, is a sign of poverty,\nas rum and tobacco-chewing go together: to dream of smoking foretells\nwaste, but is not exactly an omen of poverty, though waste always\nprecedes that state. The best way is not to dream of using tobacco at\nall. If you dream of seeing large piles of tobacco, it is a sign of bad\nluck and loss in some speculation. To dream you take snuff is a bad\nomen in love affairs, but if you dream you sneeze when you take it, it\nis a sign of long life. 49, 7, 55.\n\nTOMATOES. To dream of this valuable vegetable, denotes prosperity in\nlife; if you have children, they will thrive; if you are in love, your\nsuit will be successful. If a maiden dreams of them, it denotes that\nshe will marry her present sweetheart, have many children, and be very\nhappy; to a farmer it denotes abundant crops. 78, 6.\n\nTOMB. To dream of visiting a large and magnificent tomb-stone\nforeshadows that you will fall in love with some one above you in\nsocial position: visiting a cemetery or grave-yard in your dream, is a\nsign that your turn will soon come to join the matrimonial ranks. 48.\n\nTONGUE. If a lady dreams of having a sore on her tongue, it is a sign\nthat she has uttered a slander. 54.\n\nTOOTH-ACHE. To dream that you have the tooth-ache is a sign of trouble:\nif you imagine that you are about to have the tooth pulled, it\nforetells that your trouble will end by a piece of good luck; and if\nyou dream that the tooth is out, and you have it in your hand, you will\nsoon gain a good lump of money. 8, 5, 34.\n\nTORCH. To see a bright torch-light at a distance in a dark night, and\ngo toward it, foretells a successful journey; but if you stumble by the\nway you will experience an accident: to dream of carrying a lighted\ntorch at night, is a sign that some distant friend will pay you a\nvisit. 20.\n\nTOWER. (_See Steeple._) To dream of going upon a high tower, and\nlooking off on a beautiful landscape, foretells that you will acquire\nland either by purchase or inheritance: if you look off upon the water,\nit is a sign of a journey by sea, during which you will acquire riches:\nif birds are flying around the tower, they foretell so many troubles.\n58.\n\nTRAP. To dream of setting a trap to catch rats or mice, is a sign, to a\ngirl, that she will receive the attentions of a dishonest lover: if she\ndreams of catching any, she will probably marry a great scamp, or be\nseduced by one. 6.\n\nTRAVELING. To dream of traveling by railroad or steamboat is a very\ngood omen, as it denotes thrift and success in your business; but if\nyou dream you are journeying in your own private coach, it foreshadows\npoverty in the end, though you may have temporary good luck: if you\ndream you have crossed the ocean, and find yourself in a foreign\ncountry, you may be sure that good fortune will attend all your\nbusiness transactions. 6, 11, 66.\n\nTREES. (_See Blossom._) To dream of green and flourishing trees is an\nexcellent omen, as it foretells riches\u2014the larger the trees, the better\nthe fortune: if you dream of climbing into a high tree, you will not\nonly be rich, but will come to great distinction. If a girl should\ndream of seeing her lover up a tree, she will marry a wealthy and\ndistinguished man. 4.\n\nTRIPE. If a woman dreams of cleaning tripe, it foretells that she will\neither be untrue to her husband or an outrage will be perpetrated upon\nher: to dream of eating tripe is about as bad, for it shows to a man\nthat he will be engaged in some affair with a female (not his wife)\nwhich will bring him to disgrace. 28, 9.\n\nTRIPLETS. If a woman dreams that she gives birth to three children at\none parturition, it foretells riches and honors: if a husband dreams\nthat his wife is so delivered, the omen is the same: if any one dreams\nof seeing triplets who are healthy and well-formed, it foretells good\nluck and success, particularly in love matters. 46, 5.\n\nTROUT. To dream of catching trout is an excellent omen, as it foretells\nthat you will get money\u2014the larger the trout, the more cash you will\nreceive. It is stated in some of the books that to newly married people\nsuch a dream foretells the birth of a child, but I have been unable\nto verify this, because most young married people will have children\nwhether they dream of trout or not. 29, 5.\n\nTRUMPET. To dream you hear the sound of a trumpet, is a bad omen, and\ndenotes trouble and misfortune; to the tradesman it presages the loss\nof business; to the farmer, bad crops; to the lover, insincerity in the\nobject of your affections. 46, 9.\n\nTRUNK. To dream of a full trunk, shows the necessity of economy; an\nempty one, signifies that you may expect to receive money. 39, 62, 1.\n\nTUB. To dream of a tub is a bad omen: if it be filled with water, you\nhave evil to fear; an empty tub signifies trouble; and to run against\none, sorrow. 46, 9.\n\nTULIPS. To dream of these beautiful flowers is a sign of abundance: if\nyou imagine you see a garden full of them belonging to yourself, it\nforetells that you will become rich and distinguished: if a girl dreams\nthat her lover presents her with tulips, she will undoubtedly marry\nwell, and probably her husband will be wealthy. 48.\n\nTURKEY. To dream of seeing a flock of turkeys denotes to a tradesman,\nor a farmer, that he will have a transaction which will bring him in a\nconsiderable sum in ready money: if a lover who is about to be married\ndreams of turkeys, he will find that his sweetheart has got a marriage\nportion in ready money. 72, 15.\n\nTURNIP. To dream of turnips signifies the discovery of secrets and\ndomestic quarrels. 29, 52.\n\nTURTLE. To dream of turtles is a sign of long life: an engaged young\nlady who dreams of these animals will probably marry according to her\nwishes, and live with her husband until they become an old couple; but\nher husband will be one of the slow and easy kind. 67, 49, 5.\n\nTWINS. To dream of having twins, brings good news, and is a sign of\nhonor or riches; it is also a good omen in love matters if a man dreams\nit, but if a girl has this dream she must look out for the boys. 44, 4.\n\nUMBRELLA. If a young girl dreams that she has got a new umbrella, it\nforetells a new lover: if a married woman dreams this, it is a sign\nthat some other gentleman besides her husband is enamored of her. A\nman who dreams of buying an umbrella will have a narrow escape from\nthreatened danger. 70, 30, 1.\n\nUNDER GROUND. To dream that you go down under ground, whether into a\nwell, a deep cellar or vault, or a cave, denotes your early death; but\nif you dream that you are digging in the ground, and are in a hole\nwhich you have dug, the omen is different, for it denotes riches and\nlong life. 5, 9, 45.\n\nUNDRESS. To see your wife undress, signifies wantonness; to undress in\nthe presence of others, slander; to undress in your room alone, the\ndiscovery of secrets. 48, 3.\n\nVACCINATED. To dream of being vaccinated foretells good health; and if\nyou imagine that you have a large sore on your arm from vaccination, it\nis a sign that you will present to some one a liberal gift, and receive\nmuch honor. 49.\n\nVARNISHING. To dream that your house or furniture is being, or has\nbeen, newly varnished, is a sign of a funeral; but if you imagine that\nyou are varnishing anything, it merely foretells a loss with out a\ndeath. 59, 76.\n\nVAULT. An unexpected estate will fall to you, if you dream of a vault.\n21, 18.\n\nVEAL. To dream of veal being roasted is good; but boiled, shows\nsickness; and raw, a great disappointment; particularly to those who\nhave recently formed an attachment or any new connection. 48, 2.\n\nVELVET. If a lady dreams of new velvet dresses, it foretells poverty:\nvelvet cushions, slippers or bonnets, are signs of waste and want. 36,\n18.\n\nVENISON. To dream of eating venison is a sign that you will travel: if\nyou imagine you see large saddles of venison in market, it foretells a\njourney for business purposes which will be profitable. 42, 70.\n\nVERMIN. To dream of any kind of vermin, is ominous of ill-luck and\nenemies, especially if they are in the house, or near the fireplace;\nbut if out of the house, they are unimportant. 27, 62.\n\nVEXATION. To dream of being much vexed, foretells the reverse, and that\nyou will shortly be much pleased. 33, 61.\n\nVINEGAR. To dream you drink vinegar, signifies sickness and sharp\nwords: to use it in pickling, is a sign of gain. 29, 6, 76.\n\nVINES. To dream of seeing or pruning grape-vines, or gathering grapes,\nis prosperity to persons in trade, journeys to the rich, employment to\nthe poor, and comfort to those in affliction. 38, 17.\n\nVIOLIN. (_See Fiddle._)\n\nVIRGIN. If a man dreams that he defloured a virgin, it is a sign that\nhe will be disgraced by some act of his own: to dream of seeing the\nVirgin Mary, foretells that great honors await you: such a dream, to an\nhonest business man, promises him riches and honor; but to a dishonest\none, it foretells disaster. 54, 3.\n\nVOMITING. To dream of vomiting is usually a sign of health: if you\nimagine that you vomit up worms, it foretells that you will have good\nluck in preventing a loss, or a robbery. 14, 65.\n\nVOTE. To dream you are voting, is bad, particularly to a sick person:\nfor a newly married woman to dream of voting, is a sure sign that her\nfirst child will be a boy, who will come to great honors. 9.\n\nVOW. To dream that you have made a vow and broken it, is bad to all.\n21, 78.\n\nVULTURE. To dream of the vulture is unfortunate to all, except sick\npersons, to whom it foretells a speedy recovery. 41, 62.\n\nWADING. If a girl dreams of wading in clear water, it is a sign that\nshe will soon marry, and be delighted with her husband\u2019s embraces: if\nshe imagines that the water is rily or muddy, it foretells that she\nwill enjoy the pleasures of illicit love. If a man dreams of wading,\nit denotes that he will be engaged in some intrigue with a female\u2014the\ndeeper the water, the more difficult the realization of his wishes:\nmuddy water denotes loose women. 20, 16.\n\nWAKE. To dream of going to a wake where drinking and howling is\ngoing on, is a sign of poverty and misery: if a girl dreams this, it\nforetells her speedy marriage with a man who will turn out to be a\nmiserable drunkard. If a young man dreams of seeing his sweetheart at a\nwake, he had better back out from the bargain, as she will never be of\nmuch account, and may become a drunkard. 8.\n\nWALKING. To dream you are walking in a dirty and muddy place,\nforetells sickness and vexation: in love, it denotes bad temper and\ndisappointment. 47.\n\nWALLS. To dream you are walking on, or climbing over walls, denotes\nsome dangerous enterprise, trouble, and vexation: if you get down\nwithout the wall falling, or hurting yourself, you will succeed; if\nnot, be disappointed. 71, 4.\n\nWALNUTS. To dream of them denotes riches and happiness; to the lover,\nsuccess and a good tempered sweetheart. 37, 16.\n\nWAR. To dream that war exists, and that you see bodies of troops\nmarching, foretells quarrels and troubles in your family, if you have\none, and if not, among your relatives: if you imagine you see a battle,\nthe omen is still worse, as the quarrel will probably become public and\nnotorious. 4, 6, 24.\n\nWARMING-PAN. If any single person dreams that his or her bed is warmed\nwith one of these utensils, it is a positive forerunner of their\nmarriage: if a married woman dreams this, it is a sign that she will go\nto bed with a strange bedfellow (whether male or female, is not known).\n16.\n\nWARTS. To dream of warts on your left hand is a sign you will receive\nsome money; if they are on the right hand, it foretells that you will\npay away money: to dream of a wart on the nose, signifies that you will\nbe distinguished; on the neck or bosom of a female, denotes riches. 65.\n\nWASHING. To dream of washing, foretells change of abode, and if you\nwash in clear, cold water, the dream is an omen of good; but If the\nwater is dirty or turbid, it is the reverse. If a woman dream she\nis washing clothes, it is a sign she will hear good news within\ntwenty-four hours. 20, 16.\n\nWASP. (_See Sting._) To dream of wasps denotes thrift and abundance,\nparticularly to farmers and those who have fruit-trees. If a girl\ndreams that she is stung by a mud-wasp, it foretells that she will\nmarry a gentleman who will love her dearly. 62, 18.\n\nWASTE. To dream of waste is a sign of beggary, provided you are the\ncause of the waste; but if you feel bad and try to prevent it, the omen\nis one of losses, which may not end in beggary. 29, 17.\n\nWATCH. (_See Clock._) If you dream of buying a gold watch, it is a\nsign of poverty; but if you imagine that you are presented with one,\nit foretells good luck and money-getting: to dream of losing your gold\nwatch is also a good omen, as it denotes success in business. 42, 11.\n\nWATCHMAN. To dream of calling in one, gives confidence: to see a\nperson taken to prison by a watchman, shows that you must be careful\nin conducting your business. If the watchman take hold of you, it is a\nvery good sign. To see many watchmen together, signifies the loss of\nmoney. 67, 52.\n\nWATER. To dream of being on the water, is good, if the water be clear;\nbut if muddy or troubled, the reverse. To see a wide expanse of water,\nover or on which you wish to get, but cannot, shows that you are\nabout to embark in some undertaking without first securing the means\nof success. (_See Bathing, Fountain, Pump, Pitcher, River, Rowing,\nSailing, Swimming, Thirst, Washing and Well._) 42, 18.\n\nWATERMELONS. (_See Melons._)\n\nWEDDING. (_See Marriage._) To dream of being at a jolly wedding, is a\nsign of a funeral: if you imagine that you kiss the bride, it foretells\nthe death of a dear friend or relative. In an old dream-book, published\n1808, it is stated that to dream of kissing the bride, is a sign of\nyour own death, but on referring to the best authorities, I find it is\nnecessary to dream that the bride should herself be the kissing party,\nand that an impressive kiss from her on the occasion denotes the death\nof the person kissed. 42, 78, 2.\n\nWELL. To dream of looking into a deep well, is a sign you will find a\ntreasure: if you dream of falling into a deep well, it foretells your\ndeath: if you imagine you draw clear water from a well, and drink it,\nyou will surely have good fortune of some kind. 7, 14, 77.\n\nWET-NURSE. To dream of seeing a wet-nurse suckling a child, is a\nsign of venery: to a married man it foretells that he will break his\nmarriage vows; and to unmarried girls it denotes shame. 7, 9, 63.\n\nWHALE. To dream of seeing one of these monsters alive in the ocean, is\na sign that you will be in great peril of losing either your life or\nproperty: if you dream that you spear or harpoon a whale successfully,\nit foretells great and abundant fortune. 37, 22, 61.\n\nWHEAT. (_See Grain._)\n\nWHISKERS. If a man dreams that he has very long whiskers or beard, it\nforetells that he will commit some folly in connection with a female;\nto a married man it shows that he will appear ridiculous from neglect\nof his wife and attentions to other women who flatter him; to a single\nman, that he will lose caste by foolish, though perhaps not criminal\nconduct toward silly girls. 78.\n\nWHIST. (_See Cards._)\n\nWHITEWASH. To dream of having your house or place of business\nwhitewashed, is an excellent omen, as it promises you good health,\nand a good name and repute among your friends: if a woman dreams of\nwhitewashing her house, or any part of it, it foretells that she will\nhave a son who will be distinguished, or that some act of hers will\nattract public attention. 42, 77.\n\nWHORE. If a man dreams of associating with one of this class of women,\nit foretells losses and disgrace: should a girl dream of playing the\nwhore, when in fact she is chaste, it foretells her speedy marriage,\nand that she will love her husband. 19.\n\nWHORTLEBERRIES. For a girl to dream of picking these berries in\nabundance, is a sign she will marry very young and get a good husband,\nthough not a rich one: to dream of eating whortleberries, denotes\nhealth. 69, 30.\n\nWIDOW. If a girl dreams that she is a widow, it foretells that she will\nhave many lovers: such a dream to a married woman, denotes that some\nman beside her husband is in love with her. 38, 60.\n\nWIG. To dream of wearing a wig is a good omen to a bald bachelor, as\nit foretells that some lady has a design to catch the poor fellow, and\nwill not scruple as to the means she uses to accomplish it: if a young\nman dreams of wearing a wig, it is a sign that he will sleep with his\nsweetheart before he marries her. 3, 6, 69.\n\nWILL. To dream of making your will is a sign of long life, and good\nfortune generally: if you imagine that you make your will to give a\nlegacy to a lady, it foretells to a man (whether married or single)\nthat he will marry. 22.\n\nWILLOW. To dream of weeping willows is a sign of sickness and death: if\nthey hang over a stream, it foretells sickness only. 12, 70.\n\nWINE. To dream of drinking wine is a sign of poverty: if a lover dreams\nthat his sweetheart treats him to a glass of wine, it foretells that\nshe will be an unthrifty wife. 39.\n\nWITCH. To dream of a witch foretells that you will leave your home\nand sojourn among strangers: if the witch attempts to injure you, it\ndenotes that you will be dependent upon strangers for your support. No\nintelligent person believes in witches, yet a great many dream of them,\nand the above is the horoscope of such a dream. 17.\n\nWOLF. To dream of being chased by one of these animals, foretells that\nyou will be cheated in a trade or bargain: if a girl dreams of being\nfrightened by a wolf, it shows that her lover (if she has one) is a\nbad man, and she had better discard him; if she has no lover, some\nblack-hearted fellow will try to make her acquaintance. 45.\n\nWOODCHUCK. To dream of catching one of these animals, is a sign that\nyou will be robbed, and that the thief will be detected: if you imagine\nyou kill the woodchuck, you will probably recover your stolen property.\n36, 19.\n\nWOODS. (_See Grove and Picnic._)\n\nWORK. (_See Harvest._) To dream that you were working hard, and are\nvery tired, is a sign of sickness: if you imagine that you see men at\nwork, it foretells a successful business. 77.\n\nWORMS. (_See Grub._) To dream of fish-worms, such as are dug in\nthe garden, is a sign of health and good fortune; dreaming of any\ndestructive worms foretells sickness and losses: if you dream that\nworms spin down from a tree and light upon you, it denotes difficulties\nand bad luck. 65, 4, 70.\n\nWOUND. To dream that you are wounded by being stabbed or shot by an\nenemy, foretells losses and poverty; if the wounds are accidental, it\nstill denotes losses, though your general fortune may not be affected.\n13, 42.\n\nWREN. To dream that one of these musical little birds makes her nest\nanywhere on your premises, is a sign of joy and riches; a girl who\ndreams this will make a happy match, though perhaps not a rich one, as\nthe riches only come to the family that lives in the house. 1, 73.\n\nWRINKLES. If a lady dreams that her face has become wrinkled, it is a\nsign that some one is, or has been, praising her good looks; an old\nbachelor who dreams this, \u202f\u201chad better believe\u201d that some young lady is\nin love with him, for there is no accounting for taste. 66, 4.\n\nWRIST. If a girl dreams that her wrist is large or mis-shapen, it\nforetells that she will come to poverty after marriage; if she imagines\nthat there is a tumor or swelling, or even a wart on it, it is a sign\nthat she will be dependent on some one for her bread, and that person\nmay or may not be her husband. 7, 57, 19.\n\nWRITING. (_See Pen and Accounts._) To dream of writing a letter,\nforetells that absent friends are about to visit you: if a girl dreams\nof writing a love-letter, it is a sign that her lover will soon return\nand clasp her in his arms, if she allows any such familiarities. To\ndream you make a blot while writing, is a sign of sickness. 14.\n\nYACHT. To dream you see a yacht under full sail, while you are on\nshore, is a sign you will soon fall in love with a pretty maid, or\nwidow. To dream you are sailing in a yacht with a pleasant breeze, is a\ngood omen, and denotes success in business, and to lovers, happiness.\nDreams of sailing on smooth water are good to all persons, but to dream\nthe weather is stormy, predicts quarrels and strife. (_See Ship and\nBoat._) 71, 29.\n\nYELLOW. To dream of having any yellow article presented to you, is\na sign you will get gold: if a girl dreams that her lover gives her\nyellow flowers, it foretells that she will marry rich. 60, 41.\n\nYOKE. To dream of seeing sleek and healthy cattle yoked together and\nacting in harmony, is a sign of a happy marriage: if a girl dreams\nthis, she will be apt to put her own neck in Hymen\u2019s yoke before a\ngreat while. To imagine you see yoked cattle wrangling, and trying to\nget their necks out of the yoke, foretells matrimonial troubles, though\nit still denotes wedlock to the unmarried. 6, 11.\n\nYOUNG. If an old or middle aged person dreams that they are young, it\nforetells their death: for a young person to dream that he or she is a\nchild, the omen is similar; but to dream _of youths_, is a sign that\nyou will live to a great age. 69, 4.\n\nZEBRA. To dream of seeing a zebra, is a sign of a quarrel: if you\nimagine that somebody presented you with one of these animals, or that\nyou have purchased it, it foretells, to a young man, that he will marry\na rich but quarrelsome wife, and that she will be constantly annoying\nhim by bragging of her property. 39, 70, 32.\n\nZOUAVE. (_See Parade._) To dream you see Zouaves, as well as other\nsoldiers and armed men, denotes, that you will have quarrels and\ntrouble in your family, if you have one, and if you have not, among\nyour relatives: to the single man, this dream foreshadows that his\nsweetheart loves another better than himself; and to the maiden it\nsignifies her lover will try and seduce her. 58, 1, 77.\n\nZINK. (_See Metals._)\n\n\n LIST OF DREAMS, WITHOUT INTERPRETATIONS, BUT WITH THE NUMBERS THEY\n SIGNIFY.\n\n Afternoon, 46.\n Alabaster, 13, 78, 3.\n Album, 63, 18.\n Alley, 2, 55.\n Alloy, 9.\n Alum, 62, 12.\n Anchovy, 73, 1, 62.\n Andiron, 33.\n Apprentice, 54.\n Apron, 8.\n Arch, 4, 37, 9.\n Archbishop, 13, 6.\n Architect, 72, 3.\n Armory, 54.\n Army, 44.\n Arrow, 37, 20.\n Arrow-root, 49, 7, 8.\n Ascent, 4.\n Asparagus, 16, 40, 1.\n Assistance, 71, 33.\n Attack, 69.\n Axe, 49, 74.\n\n Band-box, 21, 44.\n Bantem Fowl, 34.\n Bark of Dogs, 64, 18.\n Bark of Trees, 77.\n Barley, 3, 19, 10.\n Bar-room, 14.\n Basket, 46, 31, 2.\n Basque, 17.\n Bass-viol, 37, 54.\n Bass-voice, 53, 72, 14.\n Bathroom, 11, 76, 1.\n Batter, 4, 18.\n Bedfellow, 72.\n Bedstead, 15.\n Bee-hive, 22, 1.\n Beef, 27, 71, 8.\n Beef, boiled, 8, 4, 32.\n Beef, corned, 64, 8.\n Beef, roasted, 16, 64.\n Bell-ringer, 51.\n Belly-ache, 78, 2.\n Belly-band, 13.\n Bier, 47, 6.\n Billiards, 9, 6, 54.\n Billiard Table, 6, 9, 72.\n Birthday, _Play your age_.\n Bishop, 63.\n Blackbird, 41, 3.\n Black-eye, 57.\n Blacksmith, 35, 61, 2.\n Blanket, 7, 53.\n Blarny, 18.\n Blind Man or Woman, 78.\n Blind Man\u2019s Buff, 31.\n Blue-stocking, 28, 10.\n Blushing, 71, 49, 8.\n Boarding-house, 65, 5.\n Boasting, 4.\n Boatswain, 12.\n Bomb-shell, 39, 58.\n Bones, 3, 9, 70.\n Book-binder, 28.\n Book-store, 65, 2, 11.\n Borrowing, 45, 3.\n Bosom, 53.\n Bottle, 10, 19.\n Box, 68, 13.\n Box in a Theatre, 12, 4, 48.\n Box-tree, 71, 6.\n Box-wood, 8.\n Boxing, 61.\n Boxing-gloves, 16, 59, 10.\n Bracelets, 78.\n Brains, 37, 18, 4.\n Breeches, 18, 41.\n Bride, 61.\n Bridegroom, 6.\n Bridesmaid, 32.\n Brimstone, 35, 17.\n Broom, 8, 1.\n Buffalo, 59.\n Builder, 66, 3, 47.\n Building, 77, 41.\n Burglar, 7, 70.\n Burr, 36, 5, 48.\n Burying-ground, 69.\n Button of Bone, 35, 14.\n Button of Gold, 19, 1.\n Button of Silver, 58.\n\n Calendar, 40.\n Calves, 68.\n Camp, 78, 20, 54.\n Camp-meeting, 21, 5.\n Candle-stick, 2.\n Capers, 46.\n Capmaker, 64, 19.\n Capon, 39, 14, 72.\n Captain, 63, 27.\n Card de visite, 1, 20.\n Cardmaker, 36, 2.\n Carnival, 51, 62.\n Carpenter, 48.\n Cartridge, 37, 1.\n Cash-box, 19, 7.\n Cashier, 63.\n Castor-oil, 21.\n Cavalry, 76.\n Celestial Signs, 57, 10.\n Chairmaker, 3, 15.\n Chairman, 18.\n Chalice, 70.\n Chalk, 19.\n Chamber, 37.\n Champagne, 72, 60.\n Champion, (of any thing,) 62.\n Chandelier, 6.\n Changing Money, 53, 1.\n Chapel, 18.\n Charcoal, 10.\n Charm, 57.\n Checkers, 16.\n Childbed, 72, 12.\n Chin, 44.\n Choir, 2, 7, 14.\n Church Meeting, 55, 1.\n Cider, 31.\n Circle, 8.\n Cistern, 61, 30.\n Clergyman, 29, 6.\n Clerk, 5.\n Cloak, 69, 70.\n Cloister, 54, 9, 11.\n Cloth, 34.\n Cloves, 65.\n Coat, 40.\n Cobbler, 16.\n Cock-fight, 21, 33.\n Coffee, 70.\n Coffee-house, 1, 17, 6.\n Coffee-mill, 71, 30.\n Cold, 71.\n College, 16, 3.\n Colonel, 64.\n Color, 43, 16, 1.\n Comb, 21.\n Comb-maker, 47, 3.\n Combing the Hair, 50.\n Commander, 34.\n Commandments, 41.\n Commerce, 73.\n Commodore, 16, 4.\n Companion, 37.\n Confectioner, 64, 22.\n Confessions, 67.\n Confidence, 58.\n Conflagration, 2, 71.\n Confusion, 30.\n Conjurer, 48.\n Conscience, 46, 19.\n Conspiracy, 4.\n Consume, 31.\n Consumption, 75.\n Convent, 32, 60.\n Convention, 1, 73.\n Cooking, 68.\n Cooking Stove, 5[TN: illegible]\n Cooper, 10, 27.\n Copperas, 15.\n Copperplate, 48.\n Coppersmith, 78, 3.\n Copying, 2.\n Coral, Red, 41.\n Coral, White, 49.\n Coronation, 16, 5.\n Cot, 17, 76.\n Cotton, 70.\n Cotton-gin, 63, 1.\n Cough, 31.\n Counter, 26.\n Counterfeit Money, 18.\n Courage, 74.\n Court, 47, 50.\n Courting, 30.\n Cousin, 5.\n Cover, 74.\n Coverlid, 1, 11.\n Creek, 47, 5.\n Crinoline, 68.\n Crop, 4.\n Cruelty, 37.\n Crystal, 45.\n Cunning, 18, 71.\n Cup, 34.\n Cup of Coffee, 14.\n Cup of Tea, 43, 8.\n Cup of Water, 50.\n Curtains, 58.\n Custom House, 19.\n Cut, 1, 8.\n Cutler, 40.\n\n Dahlgren Gun, 52.\n Dairy Maid, 70.\n Dancing Master, 69, 2.\n Dandelion, 46, 18.\n Delay, 64, 1.\n Desert, 16, 5, 2.\n Desk, 78.\n Devil, 7.\n Diarrh\u0153a. 33, 52.\n Distrust, 19, 8.\n Divorce, 41, 70, 4.\n Dominoes, 32.\n Dower, 41, 6, 77.\n Dragon, 13, 50.\n Dressing, 43.\n Drill, 5, 78, 60.\n Driver, 1, 63.\n Dromedary, 3.\n Drug Store, 9, 16, 29.\n Drummer, 11, 26.\n Dryness, 31.\n Ducats, 70.\n Dung-fork, 25, 62.\n Dunghill, 77.\n\n Ear-rings, 39, 43.\n Ebony, 44.\n Elbow, 52.\n Election, 2, 78.\n Embalming, 15, 5, 39.\n Emperor, 9.\n Empire, 26, 39.\n Engineer, 20, 62.\n Ensign, 7, 28.\n Entanglement, 77.\n Entrance, 39, 2, 44.\n Envy, 17.\n Epaulettes, 60, 65.\n Errands, 19, 38.\n Exchange Office, 52, 45, 69.\n Exile, 26.\n Expulsion, 7, 13.\n Ecstasy, 74, 47, 56.\n\n Falsehood, 8, 11, 29.\n Farrier, 2.\n Fashion, 72, 1, 23.\n Fast Horse, 23, 40, 2.\n Father-in-law, 55.\n Fencing Master, 47.\n Fencing School, 77, 38.\n Fig Tree, 36.\n File, 5, 56.\n Finding anything, 10, 32, 60.\n Firebrand, 57, 1.\n Fire Buckets, 39, 26.\n Fire Engine, 20, 3.\n Firepan, 6, 47, 52.\n Fireplace, 12.\n Fire-tongs, 28, 13.\n Firework, 16, 32.\n Fish-bone, 29, 37, 21.\n Fisherman, 16.\n Fish-hook, 63, 9.\n Fish-market, 53, 3, 67.\n Fish-net, 47.\n Fish-pond, 18.\n Flame, 38.\n Flannel, 25, 64.\n Flattery, 46, 5, 13.\n Flax, 66.\n Flax-dresser, 17, 46.\n Flax-spinning, 9, 27, 69.\n Foal, 4, 12.\n Foreigner, 73.\n Foreman, 8.\n Foot, 29, 42, 3.\n Fort, 11.\n Founder, 47, 58, 7.\n Fox, 22.\n Friend, 21.\n Fruit-seller, 70, 15.\n Fruit Trees, 29, 57.\n Furnace, 13, 39, 6.\n Furniture, 45.\n\n Gallery, 56, 61, 7.\n Gardener, 16, 47.\n Garland, 62, 4.\n Garment, 39, 47, 8.\n Garret, 4, 10, 74.\n Garrison, 1, 42, 59.\n Genealogical Tree, 27.\n Gilder, 23, 15, 63.\n Gilliflower, 53, 6, 9.\n Gingerbread, 44.\n Girl, 12, 19, 27.\n Glass-house, 67, 73.\n Glazier, 10.\n Gnat, 25, 64.\n Goldbeater, 37, 52.\n Gold-leaves, 19.\n Gooseberries, 54.\n Grandfather, 77, 53, 39.\n Grandmother, 68.\n Gratitude, 44, 26, 21.\n Greek, 5.\n Grocery, 39, 27, 6.\n Guardian, 21.\n Guests, 13, 55.\n Gymnast, 61, 28.\n\n Hair brush, 7.\n Handkerchief, 30, 65, 10.\n Harness, 15.\n Hatmaker, 59, 77.\n Hayloft, 43, 25, 6.\n Hay-wagon, 16.\n Hazelnut, 2.\n Head, 47, 69, 9.\n Headache, 29.\n Hedgehog, 15.\n Helping anyone, 6, 73.\n Hemp, 19.\n Hempseed, 64, 39.\n Henroost, 23, 77, 9.\n Herbs, 27.\n Herdsman, 44, 29.\n Hermit, 4, 9, 16.\n Herring, 1, 27.\n High School, 15.\n High Tide, 68.\n Hill, 45, 22.\n Hip, 73, 5.\n History, 49, 58.\n Holyday, 22, 39.\n Home, 10.\n Homicide, 4, 37, 69.\n Hoof, 56, 18, 22.\n Horseshoe, 6.\n Horse-cart, 59.\n Hotel-keeper, 17, 34.\n Housekeeper, 49.\n Humpback, 77, 9.\n Hunter, 69.\n Husband, 31.\n Hyacinth, 36, 7, 19.\n Hypocrite, 55, 66.\n\n Imitation, 42.\n Impatience, 29, 31.\n Inauguration, 17, 3.\n Indian Corn, 10.\n Ingratitude, 33, 29.\n Inheritance, 9, 15.\n Inkstand, 75, 69.\n Inquisition, 57, 29.\n Inscription, 6, 39, 73.\n Interpreter, 46, 22.\n Intestines, 49, 52.\n Introduction, 22.\n Invalid, 9, 4.\n Invitation, 30, 77, 5.\n Ironing, 29, 42.\n\n Jailer, 18.\n Jasmine, 2, 38.\n Jeweller, 69.\n Jewess, 17, 23.\n Jewsharp, 70.\n Journeyman, 21, 68, 6.\n Judge, 9.\n Juniper, 44.\n Justice, 39, 47.\n\n Kettle, 28, 51.\n Kitchen, 69, 7, 74.\n Kitchen-ware, 27, 39, 1.\n Knifegrinder, 6, 47.\n Knitting, 18, 33.\n\n Lace String, 2.\n Ladies\u2019 Maid, 35, 20.\n Lame Person, 15.\n Lance, 13, 19.\n Lap, 26, 29.\n Lapidary, 77.\n Leak, 22, 49.\n Leather, 15, 52.\n Legislature, 42.\n Lemonade, 6, 10.\n Loadstone, 55.\n Locks, 73, 4.\n Locksmith, 2.\n Locusts, 19, 61.\n Lodging, 29, 21, 9.\n Lodging-house, 41, 7, 56.\n Lottery Ticket, 2, 12.\n\n Maccaroni, 26.\n Machine, 1, 9.\n Magazine, 16, 18.\n Magistrate, 49.\n Mahogany, 29, 26.\n Major, 5, 9.\n Major General, 14, 45.\n Mariner, 3.\n Mark, 16.\n Mason, 9, 19, 45.\n Mast, 6, 39.\n Master, 24, 64.\n Matting, 10.\n Mattress, 3, 7, 26.\n Mattress-maker, 29.\n Meal, 11, 19.\n Measure, 52, 63.\n Melancholy, 19.\n Memorial, 6, 14.\n Merchants, 73.\n Mermaid, 41, 65.\n Messenger, 13.\n Miller, 25, 47.\n Mine, 56.\n Minerals, 39, 1.\n Mineral Water, 67, 9, 77.\n Mixture, 71, 6.\n Model, 10.\n Mole, 26, 39.\n Morning, 6.\n Morocco, 30, 71.\n Mortar, 45.\n Moss, 19, 49.\n Mother-in-law, 45.\n Mouse-trap, 4, 16, 64.\n Murder, 53, 32, 29.\n Murderer, 17.\n Musician, 44, 56.\n Musk, 21.\n Musket, 5, 45.\n Muskrat, 59.\n Myrrh, 73, 9.\n\n Necromancer, 14.\n Neighbor, 78.\n Nest, 29, 45.\n New Moon, 38.\n New Year, 18, 46.\n Noon, 56, 8.\n Notary, 49.\n Nutmeg, 29.\n\n Oil Can, 46.\n Oil Dealer, 19, 43.\n Olives, 33.\n One-eyed, 7.\n Orator, 29, 44.\n Organist, 37, 6, 3.\n Ornament, 52.\n Ostrich, 44, 11.\n Overcoat, 15.\n\n Package, 13, 29.\n Pail, 22.\n Pain, 7.\n Painter, 21, 49.\n Paper Mill, 41.\n Parchment, 19, 28, 14.\n Pardon, 6.\n Parents, 29, 49.\n Parson, 67.\n Partridge, 46, 77.\n Passion, 26.\n Pastry, 4, 9.\n Pasteboard, 18.\n Patient, 49, 1.\n Patriot, 5, 76.\n Patrol, 26, 13, 44.\n Pawn Ticket, 2, 9.\n Pencil, 3.\n Pen-holder, 71, 19.\n Persecution, 56.\n Perspiration, 78.\n Pestle, 48, 6.\n Petticoat, 22, 47, 1.\n Pheasant, 1.\n Philosopher, 34, 71.\n Physician, 19, 33, 2.\n Piazza, 6, 73.\n Pickpockets, 66.\n Pillory, 10, 55.\n Pine Tree, 17.\n Pine Wood, 29, 59.\n Plane, 18.\n Planet, 39, 4, 70.\n Planting, 27, 74.\n Plate, 9.\n Pleasure, 25, 57.\n Pocket, 20, 41.\n Pocket Knife, 6.\n Pomatum, 19.\n Pool, 27, 56.\n Poorhouse, 39.\n Poor People, 57, 78.\n Poplar Tree, 5.\n Porcelain, 27, 34.\n Porcupine, 49.\n Postage, 5, 28.\n Pot, 16, 63.\n Potatoes, 72, 10, 1.\n Potter, 57.\n Poultry, 52.\n Poultry-seller, 49, 32.\n Powder, 29.\n Preacher, 19, 41.\n Prelate, 28, 59, 3.\n Presumption, 71, 4.\n Prince, 69.\n Princess, 19, 44.\n Print, 13.\n Printer, 29, 50.\n Printing Office, 69.\n Printing Press, 47, 7.\n Printseller, 21.\n Privacy, 52, 77.\n Prize-fighter, 9, 17, 49.\n Professor, 15.\n Prophet, 3, 38.\n Prudence, 10.\n Purchaser, 49, 75, 6.\n\n Quack Doctor, 44, 2.\n Quack Medicine, 19, 38.\n Quadrupeds, 27.\n\n Raisins, 21, 45.\n Rake, 39.\n Raw Meat, 46, 77.\n Receipts, 44.\n Reconciliation, 7.\n Reed, 29, 64, 2.\n Register, 37, 19.\n Republic, 59, 1.\n Resurrection, 4.\n Review, 37, 57.\n Riding School, 10, 44.\n Rifle, 21.\n Ringing Bells, 59.\n Riot, 30.\n Rogue, 29, 48.\n Romance, 51, 13, 8.\n Rope, 19, 62.\n Rope-maker, 73.\n Rose-bud, 1.\n Rose Bush, 43, 47.\n Rosin, 9.\n Rupture, 20.\n\n Saddle, 2, 7.\n Saddler, 37.\n Sailmaker, 71, 3, 20.\n Salt, 68.\n Saltpetre, 15, 61.\n Salve, 7.\n Sampler, 13, 46.\n Sawdust, 66.\n Saw, 1, 63, 9.\n Sawyer, 30.\n Scabbard, 32, 49.\n Scandal, 57.\n School Teacher, 10, 78.\n Scorpion, 29.\n Scoundrel, 40, 42.\n Scrap Book, 39, 44.\n Scratch the head, 55, 73, 22.\n Scull, 29.\n Sculptor, 3, 39.\n Scum, 17.\n Seal, 24.\n Seaman, 42, 55, 31.\n Seamstress, 49, 60.\n Seashore, 30, 67.\n Secretary, 52, 17.\n Security, 12, 38.\n Seed, 47.\n Seed-seller, 66.\n Seat, 6, 33.\n Sentinel, 29, 64.\n Separation, 32.\n Sew, 43, 56.\n Shame, 38, 19.\n Shears, 59.\n Sheep\u2019s-wool, 1, 29, 4[TN: missing digit].\n Sheet Iron, 15.\n Shell-fish, 20, 45.\n Shoemaker, 64, 9.\n Shot-gun, 12.\n Shovel, 19, 28.\n Siege, 36, 48, 30.\n Sieve, 77, 6.\n Sign, 13.\n Silk Merchant, 49.\n Silk Stockings, 26, 41.\n Silkworm, 67.\n Silversmith, 13, 28.\n Skates, 20.\n Slander, 55, 6.\n Sleigh, 40, 29.\n Smith, 37.\n Smoking, 10.\n Snail, 27, 9, 47.\n Snipe, 36, 46.\n Snuff-box, 30, 49.\n Soapboiler, 26.\n Sole-leather, 64, 10.\n Son, 19, 73.\n Song, 40.\n Soot, 74, 7.\n Sorcerer, 56, 62.\n Soup, 39, 41, 44.\n Sparrow, 8.\n Spectacles, 24, 13.\n Spice, 6, 67.\n Spider\u2019s-web, 39.\n Spinach, 56, 49.\n Spindle, 43, 10.\n Spinning, 20, 69.\n Spinster, 63.\n Spirit, 17, 29.\n Spitting, 44, 14.\n Splendor, 37, 19.\n Spoon, 59, 17.\n Spot, 30, 47.\n Sprinkling, 66.\n Squandering, 78, 2.\n Staff, 29, 41, 22.\n Stage-driver, 11.\n Stairs, 19, 39.\n Stall, 42.\n Stallion, 7.\n Stamping, 25, 1.\n Steps, 49, 16.\n Step-sister, 52.\n Steward, 33, 11.\n Stomach, 9.\n Stone, 18.\n Stones, precious, 77, 2.\n Street, 14, 22, 63.\n Strings, 57.\n Storekeeper, 10, 64.\n Swelling, 42, 16.\n Sweet Oil, 27.\n Sweet Taste, 62, 19, 6[TN: missing digit].\n Swindler, 49, 28.\n Swindling, 8.\n Switch, 25, 42.\n Synagogue, 38, 60.\n\n Table, 11.\n Tailoress, 9.\n Tanner, 47, 14.\n Tape, 33, 68, 20.\n Tapestry, 58.\n Tart, 73, 10.\n Tassels, 5, 29.\n Teacher, 16.\n Temptation, 44.\n Tenant, 78, 66.\n Titles, 29, 49.\n Timepiece, 25, 62.\n Timber, 56.\n Tongs, 30.\n Tooth-pick, 3, 17, 33.\n Torture, 41.\n Tow, 10, 58.\n Traitor, 66.\n Traveller, 1, 52.\n Treasure, 7.\n Trembling, 41, 58, 17.\n Trial, 28, 42.\n Triumph, 69, 3.\n Trophy, 38, 17.\n Tumbler, 50, 68, 44.\n Turner, 59.\n Turpentine, 19.\n Type, 49, 69.\n\n Under-clothes, 26.\n Union, 10, 35.\n Uproar, 4, 11.\n\n Vengeance, 38.\n Vermacilla, 46.\n Vexation, 55, 2, 13.\n Vice, 70, 19.\n Victory, 68.\n Village, 25, 38.\n Viper, 40.\n\n Wages, 7, 78.\n Wagon, 67.\n Waiter, 32.\n Walls, 56, 48, 3.\n Wanderer, 9, 36.\n Want, 18.\n Wash-house, 1.\n Wash-kettle, 75, 7.\n Washer-woman, 44.\n Washing-tub, 30, 54.\n Watchmaker, 6, 46.\n Water-bucket, 29, 33, 22.\n Weasel, 57.\n Weaver, 10, 76.\n Weaving, 66, 11.\n Wedding-clothes, 23.\n Wedding-cake, 3, 68.\n Wedding-ring, 19.\n Wheel, 47, 24.\n Wheelwright, 20, 11.\n Whisper, 59, 76, 4.\n White, 39, 8.\n White Lead, 56.\n Whitewasher, 67.\n Widower, 6, 45.\n Wife, 70, 29.\n Wig-maker, 4, 77.\n Wild Animals, 25, 13.\n Wild Geese, 49.\n Wind, 56, 20, 2.\n Windmill, 33, 10.\n Wine-cellar, 18, 67.\n Wine-glass, 7.\n Winter, 39, 70.\n Witness, 29.\n Woman, 50.\n Woodcock, 6.\n Woodcutter, 28, 49.\n Wooden Spoon, 71, 5, 6.\n Woodpile, 33.\n Wool, 44, 62.\n Worship, 18, 44.\n Wound, 3.\n Wreath, 68.\n Wrestling, 2.\n\n\n NUMBERS FOR DREAMS OF NAMES.\n\n Aaron, 41.\n Abel, 8.\n Abraham, 4.\n Adam, 3.\n Adolphus, 2.\n Albert, 55, 8.\n Alexander, 70.\n Alfred, 41, 74.\n Ambrose, 30, 8, 21.\n Amos, 14.\n Andrew, 6, 49.\n Anthony, 54.\n Archibald, 61.\n Arnold, 9.\n Arthur, 34, 19.\n Augustin, 10, 75.\n Augustus, 27.\n\n Bartholomew, 9.\n Benjamin, 18.\n Bernard, 20.\n Bertram, 49.\n Boniface, 65.\n\n C\u00e6sar, 70.\n Caleb, 29.\n Cecil, 3.\n Charles, 1, 10.\n Christopher, 35.\n Clement, 49, 7.\n Conrad, 30.\n Constantine, 75.\n Cuthbert, 19, 47.\n\n Daniel, 63.\n David, 78.\n Denis, 21, 6.\n\n Edgar, 2, 60, 5.\n Edmund, 74, 4.\n Edward, 21, 8.\n Edwin, 4.\n Egbert, 28.\n Elijah, 16.\n Elisha, 14.\n Ephraim, 25, 2.\n Erasmus, 44.\n Ernest, 72.\n Eugene, 4, 13.\n Eustace, 19.\n Everard, 47, 3.\n Ezekiel, 32, 60.\n\n Felix, 54.\n Ferdinand, 69.\n Francis, 20.\n Frederic, 15.\n\n Gabriel, 17.\n Geoffrey, 33.\n George, 27, 13, 1.\n Gideon, 75, 2.\n Gilbert, 16, 30.\n Giles, 27.\n Godfrey, 55.\n Guy, 59, 5.\n\n Hannibal, 72.\n Harold, 4, 11.\n Hector, 13, 2.\n Henry, 18.\n Herbert, 20, 1.\n Hezekiah, 17.\n Horatio, 6.\n Hubert, 79.\n Hugh, 14.\n Humphrey, 37, 6.\n\n Jacob, 78.\n James, 44, 6.\n Job, 4, 10.\n Joel, 30.\n John, 4.\n Jonah, 7.\n Jonathan, 1.\n Joseph, 41.\n Joshua, 2.\n Josias, 16.\n\n Isaac, 58.\n\n Laurence, 5.\n Lazarus, 28.\n Leonard, 4.\n Leopold, 5.\n Lewis, 25.\n Lionel, 13.\n Lucius, 77, 4.\n Luke, 28.\n\n Mark, 47, 3.\n Martin, 34.\n Matthew, 65.\n Maurice, 3.\n Michael, 7.\n Moses, 34, 8.\n\n Nathaniel, 75.\n Nicolas, 6.\n Norman, 10.\n\n Obadiah, 40.\n Oliver, 2, 18.\n Orlando, 7.\n Owen, 53.\n\n Patrick, 5.\n Paul, 14.\n Percival, 11.\n Peregrine, 15, 60.\n Peter, 42.\n Philip, 19.\n Phineas, 28.\n\n Ralph, 24, 6.\n Reuben, 2, 11.\n Richard, 35.\n Robert, 60.\n Roger, 3, 78.\n Rowland, 75.\n Rufus, 29.\n\n Samson, 49.\n Samuel, 76, 4, 13.\n Saul, 5.\n Sebastian, 34.\n Simeon, 18.\n Simon, 75.\n Solomon, 12, 17.\n Stephen, 64.\n\n Theodore, 19.\n Theophilus, 34, 5.\n Thomas, 11.\n Timothy, 29.\n Toby or Tobias, 44.\n\n Valentine, 50, 1, 6.\n Vincent, 31.\n Vivian, 5.\n\n Walter, 11, 6.\n William, 22.\n\n Zaccheus, 1.\n Zachary, 10.\n Zebedee, 16.\n Zedekiah, 30.\n\n * * * * *\n\n Adeline, 7, 17, 70.\n Agatha, 9.\n Agnes, 41, 2.\n Alethea, 12.\n Alice, 42.\n Althea, 1, 70.\n Amy, Amelia, 51.\n Anna, Anne, or Hannah, 62.\n Arabella, 78.\n Aureola, 41, 6.\n\n Barbara, 21.\n Beatrice, 18.\n Benedicta, 6.\n Bernice, 54.\n Bertha, 3.\n Blanche, 1.\n Bridget, 61.\n\n Caroline, 40.\n Cassandra, 5.\n Catharine, 58.\n Cecilia, 18, 1.\n Charity, 70.\n Charlotte, 8.\n Chloe, 20, 4.\n Christiana, 10.\n Cicely, 15.\n Clara, 70.\n Constance, 68.\n\n Deborah, 34.\n Diana, 65.\n Dorcas, 2, 18.\n Dorothy, 2, 74.\n\n Edith, 29.\n Eleanor, 50.\n Eliza, Elizabeth, 2.\n Emily, 28.\n Emma, 66, 4, 8.\n Esther, 2, 17.\n Eunice, 16, 52.\n Eve, 41.\n\n Frances, 17, 20, 1.\n\n Gertrude, 75.\n Grace, 69.\n\n Hagar, 44.\n Helena, 51, 6.\n\n Isabella, 20, 71.\n\n Jane, 22.\n Janet, 2.\n Joan, 4.\n Joyce, 36.\n Judith, 30.\n Julia, Juliana, 47.\n\n Letitia, 38, 5.\n Lucretia, 7.\n Lucy, 62.\n Lydia, 41.\n\n Mabel, 17, 1.\n Magdalene, 4.\n Margaret, 3, 41.\n Martha, 20.\n Mary, 3, 11, 33.\n Maud, Matilda, 1, 18.\n Mercy, 53, 9.\n Mildred, 24.\n Miriam, 3.\n\n Nicola, 42.\n\n Olympia, 2, 78.\n\n Patience, 5, 2.\n Paulina, 21.\n Penelope, 45.\n Philippa, 3.\n Ph\u0153be, 19.\n Phyllis, 65.\n Priscilla, 10, 11.\n Prudence, 17.\n\n Rachel, 6.\n Rebecca, 45.\n Rhode, 49.\n Rosa, 19.\n Rosabella, 11.\n Rosamund, 2.\n Rosecleer, 5, 14.\n Ruth, 76.\n\n\n Sapphira, 7, 19.\n Sarah, 10.\n Sophia, 73.\n Susan, Susanna, 21.\n\n Tabitha, 4.\n Temperance, 16.\n Theodosia, 76.\n Theresa, 14.\n\n Ursula, 1.\n\n\n NUMBERS FOR DREAMS OF CARDS.\n\n SPADES.\n\n King, 65.\n Queen, 77, 8.\n Knave, 4, 17.\n Ten, 3,\n Nine, 19, 62.\n Eight, 41, 6, 30.\n Seven, 24.\n Six, 2.\n Five, 78, 12.\n Four, 55.\n Trey, 30.\n Deuce, 27.\n Ace, 77, 52.\n\n CLUBS.\n\n King, 11.\n Queen, 22, 5.\n Knave, 8, 4.\n Ten, 30, 1.\n Nine, 18.\n Eight, 77.\n Seven, 6, 70.\n Six, 20.\n Five, 74, 12.\n Four, 58.\n Trey, 33.\n Deuce, 24.\n Ace, 51, 7.\n\n HEARTS.\n\n King, 54, 7.\n Queen, 65.\n Knave, 24.\n Ten, 40, 11.\n Nine, 3, 48.\n Eight, 70, 2.\n Seven, 8, 60, 3.\n Six, 27.\n Five, 2.\n Four, 6, 21.\n Trey, 45.\n Deuce, 34, 18, 4.\n Ace, 29.\n\n DIAMONDS.\n\n King, 65.\n Queen, 30, 9.\n Knave, 47.\n Ten, 3, 11.\n Nine, 64, 30, 4.\n Eight, 58.\n Seven, 55, 5, 1.\n Six, 47, 2.\n Five, 51, 78.\n Four, 16.\n Trey, 49.\n Deuce, 7, 12.\n Ace, 6.\n\n\n NUMBERS FOR THE DREAMS OF DOMINOES.\n\n Double-Six, 48.\n Six-Five, 71, 6.\n Six-Four, 30.\n Six-Three, 5.\n Six-Two, 8.\n Six-One, 54, 2.\n Six-Blank, 35.\n\n Double-Five, 33, 8.\n Five-Four, 16.\n Five-Three, 41, 5, 7.\n Five-Two, 30.\n Five-One, 21.\n Five-Blank, 2.\n\n Double-Four, 78.\n Four-Three, 4.\n Four-Two, 21, 2.\n Four-One, 50.\n Four-Blank, 48.\n\n Double-Three, 65.\n Three-Two, 24.\n Three-One, 16.\n Three-Blank, 30, 16, 4.\n\n Double-Two, 41, 3.\n Two-One, 5, 17.\n Two-Blank, 2.\n\n Double-One, 21.\n One-Blank, 10.\n Double Blank, (Don\u2019t play.)\n\n\n NUMBERS FOR DREAMS OF THE MONTHS.\n\n January, 26.\n February, 18.\n March, 44.\n April, 17.\n May, 3.\n June, 75.\n July, 22.\n August, 37.\n September, 18.\n October, 3.\n November, 2.\n December, 55.\n\n\n FOR THE DAYS OF THE WEEK.\n\n Monday, 45.\n Tuesday, 18.\n Wednesday, 2.\n Thursday, 16.\n Friday, 2.\n Saturday, 7.\n Sunday, 1.\n\n\n\n\nHOW TO FIND LUCKY NUMBERS WITH DICE.\n\n\nThis plan of ascertaining lucky numbers has always been exceedingly\npopular with those persons who try their fortune at the lottery. The\nmanner of calculating a lucky number is as follows: Take two dice,\nand after shaking them well in a box, throw them out, being careful\nto note the whole number of spots on the uppermost sides of the dice,\nthen repeat this operation and again mark down the number of spots\nas before. Having done this, you then consult the annexed table and\nfind the number of your first throw, then follow the line down until\nyou arrive at the number corresponding with your second throw on the\nopposite side of the table. For example, we will suppose you throw the\nfirst time, and the number of spots is equal to 4. You must then look\nat the top of the line and find the Roman numeral IV. You throw the\nsecond time and get 7 spots; this you will find on the outside column,\nat the left hand, marked VII. Then all you have to do is to place your\nfinger on the IV. at the top of the table and follow the line down\nuntil you arrive at VII. on the opposite side of the table, thus you\nwill find the number 43, which is the lucky number. Should you come to\na cypher (0) you must throw again. By following these simple directions\nyou can get as many good numbers as you wish to play.\n\n TABLE TO FIND LUCKY NUMBERS.\n\n\n I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n II 75 0 18 0 16 0 78 0 44 0 39\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n III 64 28 0 2 0 55 0 21 0 51 0\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n IV 1 0 70 0 32 0 29 48 35 0 12\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n V 53 69 0 5 40 61 0 9 42 73 0\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n VI 46 54 7 76 38 49 11 33 27 0 66\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n VII 0 58 43 8 77 0 25 67 19 3 0\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n VIII 50 0 22 0 65 0 72 0 36 0 47\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n IX 0 13 0 31 10 0 60 15 0 4 0\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n X 23 0 59 0 71 0 6 68 34 0 20\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n XI 0 74 14 52 62 24 0 30 0 17 0\n \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\n XII 57 0 41 26 0 37 63 0 45 0 56\n\n\n\n\n THE SHIFT CHARM.\n\n\nOn going to bed, take off your under garment and turn it wrong side\noutwards; hang it on the back of a chair, having first placed the chair\nfacing and in front of the bed. While doing this, repeat the following\nlines:\n\n Husband approach! and without fear\n Sit on this chair, and thus be near\n The girl your heart doth hold most dear\n And if thy love is all sincere,\n To her, this night appear! appear!\n\nYou must then get into bed backwards, and sleep in your night-gown\nwithout any shift. You will probably dream of seeing an agreeable young\nman, in which case your marriage within that year is certain. If you do\nnot dream of a man, you will never marry. You should be alone in trying\nthis charm, for if you speak to any one, or any one in the room speaks,\nit breaks it at once.\n\n\n\n\n FORTUNE-TELLING WITH A PACK OF EUCHRE CARDS.\n\n\nTake a pack of thirty two cards, such as is used for the game of\nEuchre. Each one of these cards has its own _particular_ signification.\nBut when taken in connection with other cards its signification is\ntermed _conditional_.\n\n\n PARTICULAR SIGNIFICATION OF THE CARDS.\n\n \u2660 (SPADES.)\n\nACE: Disagreeable tidings\u2014perhaps news of a death.\n\nSEVEN: Dangerous illness, or something very unpleasant.\n\nEIGHT: Sorrow, vexation.\n\nNINE: Quarrels, law-suits, high words, blows.\n\nTEN: Non-fulfilment of a wish\u2014disappointment of a cherished hope,\nunforeseen accidents.\n\n \u2663 (CLUBS.)\n\nACE: A present, a testimonial of honor and distinction.\n\nSEVEN: An inheritance, gain, profit.\n\nEIGHT: Prosperity, wealth, success in business.\n\nNINE: Proposals of marriage.\n\nTEN: Good fortune in games of chance, in lottery speculations, finding\na treasure.\n\n \u2666 (DIAMONDS.)\n\nACE: A letter, news\u2014whether good or bad is determined by the nearest\ncards.\n\nSEVEN: Travels, a campaign.\n\nEIGHT: A ball, company.\n\nNINE: Illness\u2014if a knave lies on the right side, you will soon stand\ngodfather.\n\nTEN: A joyful meeting\u2014a long lost friend returned. Of the picture cards\nwe will speak hereafter.\n\n \u2665 (HEARTS.)\n\nACE: Quiet domestic life\u2014tranquillity.\n\nSEVEN: Falling in Love\u2014Love.\n\nEIGHT: A Surprise.\n\nNINE: Betrothal.\n\nTEN: A Wedding.\n\nIn explaining the cards, my dear readers, to any one, shuffle the pack\nthree times, and let the person who wishes to know his fortune cut it\nthree times in succession. Then take up the cards, and let the person\nin question draw one. This drawn card you place first upon the table.\nThen spread out the pack in four rows, each containing eight cards.\n(_See Engraving._)\n\nThe first card is of the highest significance. In the first place it\nindicates the character of the person inquiring, and according to the\nfollowing rule:\n\n \u2660 Choleric, passionate, violent.\n\n \u2663 Sanguine, cheerful, mirthful, witty.\n\n \u2666 Phlegmatic, practical, unexcitable.\n\n \u2665 Melancholic, sentimental, poetical, talented.\n\nAs, however, the human character is never without more than one of\nthe above named characteristics, the first card signifies the most\nprominent one, and the cards which lie on the right side and below it\nare reckoned with it, by which the meaning of the first card is either\nmodified or corroborated.\n\nIf the person in question is a lady, and she has, for example, drawn\na club, the queen of clubs is herself, the knave of clubs is her\nintended, the king her father, or uncle, as the case may be. The\npicture cards of the other black suit are her friends and relations.\nIt is the same if she has drawn hearts or diamonds, only that in this\ncase the picture cards of the other red suit signify her friends and\nrelations. If the person inquiring is a gentleman, it is the same,\nexcept that he is the knave of the suit which he has drawn, and his\nintended the queen.\n\nFrom this first card, also, you form a judgment of one\u2019s whole future\ncourse in life. If its signification is joyful, the person\u2019s life will\nbe a happy one. If, for example, it is the ace of hearts, it indicates\nthat the person will never be without a home, a dear and pleasant home\nto him; if it is the ace of clubs, he will pass through life enjoying\nhonor and fame; if it is the ten of hearts with a female figure on\neither side, it signifies two wives; if with a male figure on either\nside, and the person inquiring is a female, two husbands.\n\n[Illustration: EXAMPLE OF FORTUNE-TELLING WITH AN EUCHRE PACK OF CARDS.]\n\nThus much as to general rules. We will now instruct the reader how to\nexplain the cards in detail. We will suppose that it is a lady who\ninquires of the cards, and endeavor, by means of an example, to give an\naccurate explanation of the method to be pursued. Spread out the cards\nbefore you, and observe carefully the different cards while you read\nthe fortune I shall predict from them. (_See Engraving, page 96._)\n\nACE OF HEARTS.\u2014The young lady\u2019s character, it seems, is sentimental,\nmelancholic, poetical, which three qualities are found more or\nless together. If the next card were a heart, it would indicate a\ntemperament inclined to love. As, however, the adjacent cards are clubs\nand spades, of which two indeed are clubs, we conclude that the lady\noften displays a cheerful, sanguine disposition, yet can, at times, be\nvery passionate. The main feature of her character, however, is the\nmelancholic.\n\nWe will now look around for the lady herself\u2014she is found to be the\nseventh card on the last row. Her lover, on the other hand, is the\neighth card in the second row. As he precedes her, this signifies\nthat she is already acquainted with him, and they seem already to\nlove one another, as a love card lies at his side, and also one at\nhers; no card, however, lies between them to connect them, except the\nqueen of diamonds. This, however, is not altogether favorable, for a\nqueen between a loving pair signifies a rival (for a gentleman, the\nknave signifies the same), and can as well indicate a separation as a\nunion, notwithstanding its similarity of color. The general rule is\nas follows:\u2014If the card which connects the queen and knave is of the\nsame color with them, it indicates a future union between the persons.\n(Hearts and diamonds form one color, as do clubs and spades.)\n\nOne thing more: from the cards which lie next to the knave, we are\nenabled to judge of the character and occupation of the lady\u2019s\nintended. In the present case, the cards next to the knave of hearts\nare two spades, two diamonds, and one heart; his character, therefore,\naccording to the rules already given, is choleric, yet at times\nmelancholic and sentimental. In his daily conduct he is practical and\nconsiderate.\n\nAs to his occupation, the different colors have the following\nsignification:\n\n \u2660 A student, probably a clergyman.\n\n \u2663 A lawyer\u2014jurist.\n\n \u2666 A mechanic, merchant, or a person who has chosen for\nhimself some practical career.\n\n \u2665 A capitalist, a genius who devotes himself to some\nfavorite pursuit, also a military man.\n\nThe card at the right hand is commonly the decisive one, but as, in the\npresent case, there is no right hand card, the one at the left takes\nits place; according to this, the lady\u2019s intended is a capitalist, a\ngenius, or a military man.\n\nWe now proceed to tell the lady\u2019s fortune in its particulars.\n\nWe commence from the ace of hearts, thus: a considerable windfall will\nhappen in your family, young lady. Either you or your parents will draw\na prize in the lottery, or heaven will drop some other nice morsel into\nyour mouth (ten of clubs).\n\nThis will give occasion to a journey, which you will take with an\nacquaintance (king of spades and seven of diamonds). This journey will\nbe very agreeable to you, and especially will you enjoy yourself at\na ball, to which you will be invited by a friend of your travelling\ncompanion (knave of clubs and eight of diamonds). You will then dance\na cotillion with a relative of your intended, perhaps with your own\nbrother-in-law that is to be (knave of diamonds).\n\nWhen you return home, you will find a letter, at the sight of which you\nwill be disturbed, the hand-writing being that of a person unfriendly\nto you (queen of spades, ace of spades). You open it, and behold it\nis a proposal of marriage (nine of clubs), and from a relative of the\ngentleman who invited you to the ball (king of clubs), which touches\nthe (nine of clubs).\n\nAs, however, you promise yourself nothing but vexation (eight of\nspades) from this marriage, you refuse him (ten of spades), and it will\nsoon appear that a better fortune lies before you (eight of clubs).\nSoon after, a wedding takes place (ten of hearts), namely, that of\nyour sister or friend (queen of diamonds), who, therefore, does not\nstand between you and your intended to separate you, but to unite you.\nThe bridegroom is the gentleman who was your partner in the cotillion\nat that ball (knave of diamonds). At this wedding you will among\nothers see your intended (knave of hearts), with whom you are already\nacquainted. You will also meet there a gentleman, who, when you last\nsaw him, was dangerously ill (seven of spades, knave of spades, and ten\nof diamonds). Your intended seizes the opportunity to offer himself to\nyou, and you become betrothed to him (nine of hearts). You will receive\na present from a relative or friend, perhaps from your brother (ace of\nclubs, and king of diamonds).\n\nSomething now occurs to separate you from your betrothed (nine of\nspades). It almost seems as if you were jealous of a lady whom he\nformerly loved (queen of clubs, seven of hearts). A very tender letter\nwhich he writes to you, from a bed of sickness upon which his grief has\nprostrated him (ace of diamonds, nine of diamonds), soon reconciles\nyou again, and as not long after something occurs which places him\nin a position to support a wife in comfort (seven of clubs), the\nhappy marriage is celebrated. Dear relatives (king of hearts, king of\ndiamonds, and queen of diamonds) prepare for you joyful surprises,\nwhich combine to render this day an infinitely happy one.\n\nOne thing more: if the ten of hearts is the last card in the last row,\nthe person in question will never marry; otherwise, each row counts a\nyear. You first count the rows until you come to the nine of hearts\n(the betrothal), you then begin again and count to the ten of hearts\n(the wedding), that is, in case the nine comes after the ten. If the\nnine comes before the ten, you continue to count without recommencing.\n\nThe young lady in question will therefore be betrothed in from two to\nthree years, and will be married in about two years after, for the nine\nof hearts lies in the third row, and the ten in the second row. She has\nthen almost five years to enjoy her single life before she becomes a\nwife.\n\n\n TO FIND OUT WHOM ONE IS TO HAVE FOR A HUSBAND.\n\nYou select the four kings from a pack, and lay them side by side in a\nrow upon the table.\n\nThe lady who wishes to know her fortune gives to each of these cards\nthe name of some gentleman of her acquaintance who might be likely to\nwoo her in marriage. It is usual to pronounce these names aloud before\nthe company. The name given to the king of hearts is, however, an\nexception. This secret the lady keeps to herself. To these four kings,\nyou can also add a queen, which then denotes the old maid.\n\nNow, take the rest of the pack, shuffle it thoroughly, let the person\nin question cut three times and commence. Under each of the above\nnamed picture cards you lay a card in turn, and as often as a spade is\nplaced under a spade, a heart under a heart, &c., that is, as often as\na card of the same suit is placed under one of these picture cards, the\npicture card is turned from its position.\n\nThe first time it takes a direction from left to right, the second time\nit lies upside down, the third time it is raised again to a position\nfrom right to left, and the fourth and last time it regains its former\nupright position.\n\nThat one of the four kings, who, after these different changes, first\nresumes his upright position, is to be the happy husband. If it should\nhappen to be the old maid, you can imagine what is in store for you.\n\nAfter having learned from the cards who is to be the husband, the\nquestions next asked are, usually: How much will he love his wife,\nwhy he marries her, and what is his profession. These questions are\nanswered in the following manner:\n\nGather up the cards, shuffle them thoroughly, and let the person cut\nthem three times. Then tell off the cards upon the table, as you recite\nthe following sentence:\n\n Heartily, painfully,\n Beyond all measure,\n By fits and starts,\n Not a bit in the world.\n\nYou repeat this sentence until the king of hearts makes his appearance.\nIf it happens that, as you lay this upon the table, you pronounce the\nword \u202f\u201cheartily,\u201d he will love his future wife heartily, and so on.\n\nNow, as to why he marries her. Count off the cards upon the table,\nwhile you repeat the following sentence:\n\n For love, for her beauty,\n For his parents\u2019 command,\n For her bright, golden dollars,\n For counsel of friends.\n\nThe sentence by which you discover what is his profession is the\nfollowing:\n\n Gentleman, alderman, clergyman, doctor,\n Merchant, broker, professor, major,\n Mechanic, lawyer, shipmaster, tailor.\n\nThis method of telling fortunes is very entertaining in society, when\nyou have not the book to find more particular answers.\n\n\n A METHOD BY WHICH TO DISCOVER IF YOUR WISH WILL BE FULFILLED.\n\nTake a pack of cards, shuffle it, and let the person inquiring cut\nthree times; then place singly five cards upon the table, and upon each\nof these cards another, taken from the top, and so on, until the pack\nis exhausted, and the cards are divided into five nearly equal heaps.\n\nThe person in question now selects a suit, spades or clubs, &c.\u2014or a\ncard may previously be drawn to determine the suit.\n\nSuppose diamonds is the chosen suit: you take up the first heap, and\nthrow away all the cards until you come to a matadore of diamonds.\n(The matadores are the ace, king, queen, knave and ten.) You do the\nsame with the other heaps. If any one of the heaps does not contain a\nmatadore, you cast it entirely aside.\n\nThe heaps which are left you now place one upon another in order,\nbeginning at the left hand, and, without shuffling them, you lay them\nin five heaps, and proceed as before. This time there are, of course,\nfewer cards, beside matadores, than before. After having cast aside the\ncards which you meet with before finding a matadore, you take up the\nheaps, and, without shuffling them, lay them in five heaps, for the\nthird time. This third and last time, you must, if your wish is to be\nfulfilled, be able to discard all the cards except the matadores. If\nany other cards are left in the heaps, your wish will not be granted.\n\n\n\n\n TELLING FORTUNES BY DOMINOES AND DICE.\n\n\nThe telling of fortunes by the spots on Dominoes and Dice is a very\nancient custom, and has always been practised by the most celebrated\nastrologers and fortune-tellers. The calculations have all to be made\nby drawing a horoscope from each domino and the spots on each side of a\ndie; therefore the process is exceedingly tedious. We have given in the\nfollowing pages the results of three years\u2019 experimental labor on this\nsubject; not constant labor, for there are but a few hours in each\nyear when the stars are in the right position to draw the horoscope of\nany particular domino. A good many of the signs predicted here have\nbeen proved to be correct within the personal knowledge of the writer,\nand he doubts not they will all be found to be accurate.\n\n\n METHOD OF TELLING FORTUNES WITH DOMINOES.\n\n[Illustration: Dominoes placed in a circle]\n\nShuffle the dominoes well on a smooth table, with their faces downward,\nthen draw one and see what it signifies according to the description\ngiven below.\n\nIt is useless for any person to draw more than three dominoes at one\ntime of trial, or in one and the same month, as they will only deceive\nthemselves. Shuffle the dominoes each time of choosing; to draw the\nsame domino twice makes the answer stronger.\n\nBe very particular and do not attempt to tell your fortune by dominoes\non _Friday_ or _Monday_.\n\n\n SIGNIFICATION OF THE DOMINOES.\n\nDOUBLE-SIX. Denotes much riches by speculation, and a happy and\nprolific marriage. It is not good to farmers as far as relates to crops\nand success in their calling, but it foretells that their lands will\nrise in value, and that they can make money by selling out. If a girl\nturns this domino to learn her fate in matrimonial matters, it is a\nsign she will marry rich, and have a large family of children.\n\nSIX-FIVE. If you are in search of employment, this domino shows\nthat you will succeed by proper perseverance. If in love, do not be\ndiscouraged by any rebuffs, for success awaits you. If you have planted\na crop, or about to plant one, it will yield nobly. In money matters\nexclusively, you may not be fortunate, as the domino is not lucky for\nmoney. If your wife is about to give birth to a child, and you try your\nfortune with special reference to such birth, this domino foretells its\nearly death. If you are about to buy real estate, you will be lucky in\nthe purchase\u2014if to buy silverware, jewelry, or a watch, you will get\ncheated. If you expect a legacy, you will probably be lucky and get it.\n\nSIX-FOUR. This domino denotes early marriage and much happiness; the\nsexes of the children will be about equally divided, and they will\nlive, but will leave home early\u2014the girls to marry, and the boys to do\nfor themselves. It denotes neither poverty nor riches.\n\nSIX-THREE. This domino denotes constancy and affection. It is an\nexcellent domino for lovers, who will marry early, and enjoy much\nhappiness. It is also a sign of riches and honors; and no troubles of\nany account will mar your fortune. There is some danger, however, that\nyou will die at middle age, but if you survive that period you will\nlive to a good old age.\n\nSIX-TWO. Is an excellent domino for lovers, as it foretells a happy\nmarriage. A gentleman turning this domino, will get an orderly and\neconomical wife, and a lady will have equal good fortune in a thrifty\nand industrious husband. Those who turn this domino for luck in\nbusiness matters, will realize all and more than they expect. To\ndishonest and selfish people, however, the domino is fatal. If it is\nturned to determine the result of any scheme that is not fair and\nabove-board, it foretells ill-success and exposure. To a married\nlady who expects to present her husband with an heir, it presents a\nbeautiful and healthy child, and one who will excel as a mathematician,\nand (if a boy) will probably become distinguished.\n\nSIX-ONE. This domino foretells to young people that they will marry\ntwice, and the second marriage will be the happiest of the two. To\nmarried people it is a sign they will be better off in middle age than\nwhen young, and that one child will be faithful and remain with them,\nwhile the others will seek their fortunes away from home.\n\nSIX-BLANK. If you turn this domino you will hear of the death of an\nesteemed friend, or an acquaintance\u2014will experience the loss of a\nrelative or member of your family\u2014or some one will die in whom you are\ninterested. To a farmer, or the owner of horses or other animals, it\nmay denote the loss of some of the animals rather than human beings;\nbut it foretells death in some shape, and may even mean to warn you of\nyour own decease.\n\nDOUBLE-FIVE. Is a decidedly lucky domino in everything you undertake.\nIt foretells success in all enterprises, but does not assure you that\nyou will become rich.\n\nFIVE-FOUR. This domino shows to a lady that she will probably marry a\npoor man, have a large family of children, and then become a widow. He\nmay be pretty well off, to appearance, when she marries him, but if it\nbe so, she will find that he has debts and expensive habits that will\nbring him to poverty and the grave. It is not a good domino for money\nmatters, for if you have lost money, or if people owe you, the turning\nof this domino shows that you will not be apt to get the cash. To a\nfarmer it is a sign of good crops; but it is also a sign that something\nunfortunate will occur in connection with the farm\u2014such as cattle lost\nor injured, or property of some kind destroyed.\n\nFIVE-THREE. Denotes ample means, without any other peculiarity of\nfortune. If you turn this domino you may calculate you will never be\npoor, and may become quite wealthy. But to one already wealthy, it\nshows that though he may not become poor, he will never be any better\noff than he then is, and perhaps not so well off. To young people\nthe domino denotes comfortable circumstances after marriage, but not\nover-zealous love. It shows no positive bad luck in love matters, at\nthe same time that it does not assure you of devoted attachment of your\nproposed partner for life, of either sex. On the whole, it is a pretty\nfair domino for any one to turn.\n\nFIVE-TWO. If you are in love, you will probably be unfortunate; for\nthough you may get the person you want, and an apparently happy\nmarriage may follow, it will prove an unhappy one in the end.\nNevertheless, your happiness may continue for some time after marriage.\nTo a gentleman this domino foretells a thrifty and industrious wife,\nthough one with an unhappy temper or disposition. To a single lady it\ndenotes thrift and independence as long as she remains single. If a man\nis engaged in a speculation, or is about starting any new enterprise,\nhe will not be likely to succeed. If you are a candidate for office,\nyou will be defeated. On the whole, this is not a lucky domino for\ngentlemen, though for ladies it is a pretty fair one.\n\nFIVE-ONE. Is a jolly domino for persons fond of excitement. It predicts\nthat you will receive an invitation to a dinner, or social gathering,\nor to some place where you will enjoy yourself. If a married lady turns\nthis domino it is a sign she will present her husband with a triple\naddition to his family\u2014all boys. To a young lady it predicts a beau,\nwho will not be rich or refined, but rather a rough customer, and she\nwill discard him and marry another. If you expect to earn or to receive\nmoney, this domino is one of disappointment.\n\nFIVE-BLANK. If a man turns it, he will be either a gambler or a rich\nrogue, if he has brains enough, and if his intellect is not sufficient,\nhe will probably be a small swindler, or the favored lover of a lewd\nwoman, or both. Although these will be his characteristics, yet\ncircumstances may place him in a different position; but he will always\nbe mercenary, selfish, impudent, and without pride of character. To a\ngirl this domino foretells an unhappy marriage, and misfortune by that\nmeans; but if she remains single, and keeps clear of lovers, she will\navoid the ill omen.\n\nDOUBLE-FOUR. Is a good and smooth domino for lovers, for farmers, and\nfor laboring people of all kinds. On the contrary, lawyers, doctors,\nor professional men who turn it, will probably have a spell of hard\ntimes to encounter. To little girls and boys it predicts that they\nwill soon be invited to a party, and have much pleasure. If any one is\nabout to give a party, and turns this domino, he or she may count on a\nfirst-rate time, for everything will go on well, and the party will be\na decided success. It likewise predicts that a wedding will come off\nvery soon.\n\nFOUR-THREE. Those who turn this domino will marry young, live happily,\nand will not probably have more than one child that will live. It\ndenotes neither poverty nor riches. To a couple who are childless, it\nis a sign of a second marriage. If a married person who has children\nturns this domino, it is a sign that the family will be reduced by\ndeath or long absence.\n\nFOUR-TWO. Foretells a change in your circumstances, condition, family,\nrelations, or your ideas. It is not known what the change will be,\nbut that there will really be a change, fate has ordained. It may be\nnothing at all serious, or it may be something that will affect your\nwhole life. For instance, a young person who turns this domino may get\nmarried\u2014that will be an important change, but whether the marriage will\nbe a happy one, is not known. A married person may lose their partner\u2014a\nman may fail in business, or may become pious and join the church\u2014a\nfamily may break up housekeeping and take board, or may lose a favorite\nchild. Indeed, a thousand little incidents may occur in life which will\ncause a change in your usual routine. To farmers and persons who work\nhard for a living, the change will probably be a favorable or happy\none. To rich and lazy people it will be an unfortunate one. To any\nother than these two classes it is uncertain what the nature of it will\nbe. If you have offended your lover, or any particular friend, this\ndomino shows that you will soon make up and become stronger friends\nthan ever. It is a lucky domino for farmers in business matters,\nalthough it does not point out any particular good fortune that awaits\nthem.\n\nFOUR-ONE. Those who turn this domino will marry happily, and no\nuncommon event will mar their nuptials: the omen connected with it\nusually points to childless couples who are well off; and I find\nthat where children are born, the parties will lose their wealth and\nposition in proportion to the number of their offspring, which will\nnever exceed four. In most cases there will be no children, but ample\nmeans.\n\nFOUR-BLANK. Is an unfortunate domino for lovers, as it foretells\nquarrels and separations, old maids and old bachelors. A girl who has\na lover, and turns this domino to find out his peculiarities, had\nbetter look somewhere else at once, for she will certainly either lose\nor discard him. It is the same with a gentleman\u2014he will never marry\nthe girl he then expects to, and may be jilted. To married people the\ndomino gives a prolific promise. A married lady who turns it will\nprobably have twins or triplets at her next maternity. If you think\nto entrust a secret to a friend, this domino denotes that it will not\nbe kept. It also foretells that your future husband or wife will be a\nvery credulous person\u2014perhaps a believer in Spiritualism or some other\nabsurd doctrine.\n\nDOUBLE-THREE. Denotes immense riches, but has no allusion to matrimony.\nIt is an excellent domino for any one to turn, as it points to money\nin abundance, and does not intimate any unhappiness: therefore, the\nperson who turns it will get plenty of cash, and be happy or not, as\nfate may ordain.\n\nTHREE-TWO. Is a fortunate domino in the following cases: marriage,\nlove-making, recovering stolen property, going on a journey, entering\ninto a speculation, planting a crop, collecting a debt, or making a\npurchase. This domino shows also that you may be lucky in collecting\nsome old claim or debt that you had given up as lost. It is bad for\ngamblers, for a woman about to give birth to a child, and for peddlers.\n\nTHREE-ONE. A young girl who turns this domino will be in danger of\nlosing her chastity; therefore let her be careful. A married woman\nturning it will have an outside admirer who will flatter her with a\nview to an improper intimacy. To a man it foretells the loss of money\nthrough his illicit intercourse with the opposite sex. It is not a\nfavorable domino to any one.\n\nTHREE-BLANK. This domino denotes that your sweetheart is artful and\ndeceitful. If you get married, your wife will be either shrewish, or\nvain and unprincipled, and perhaps run away and disgrace you. To a girl\nit foretells a putty-head of a husband\u2014one who is easily influenced,\nand whom she can wind round her finger. If you turn this domino, it\nis a sign you will soon be invited to a party and there make a new\nacquaintance, with whom you will afterwards have a quarrel. If a\nmarried man or woman turns it, it predicts a family quarrel.\n\nDOUBLE-TWO. The turning of this domino denotes success in love matters\nand much happiness in the married state, together with good children\nwho will live and be prosperous. It also denotes success in any\nundertaking, and thrift, though not great riches.\n\nTWO-ONE. The turning of this domino denotes to a lady that she will\nmarry young, and that her husband will die, leaving her a large\nproperty, and childless. For a long time she will be a gay, rich widow,\nbut will be caught at last, and marry happily. To a young man it\ndenotes a life of luxury; he will never marry, but will be a favorite\nof the ladies, and have several mistresses. It is not a good domino for\nbusiness men, as it foretells losses by failures.\n\nTWO-BLANK. The turning of this domino denotes poverty and bad luck. To\na marriageable young woman it predicts a poor, dissipated and dishonest\nhusband. On the birth of a child\u2014if a boy, it is a sign that he will be\npoor and shiftless, and perhaps dishonest\u2014if a girl, that she will not\nmarry well. It is not a bad domino for a girl who lives unmarried, for\nshe may do very well alone. It is a domino of good luck to thieves and\nbad people. If they turn it, it is a sign of success in any dishonest\nundertaking. Should you turn this domino in reference to a journey, it\nshows that you will go in safety. It predicts an easy deliverance in\ncase you are attacked and should be obliged to defend yourself.\n\nDOUBLE-ACE. Denotes affectionate constancy and happiness in the\nmarriage state. It is an excellent domino to turn, both for lovers and\nmarried people, as besides the above it indicates a competency of this\nworld\u2019s goods.\n\nDOUBLE-BLANK. To turn this domino is the worst sign in the whole set,\nand is only favorable to misers, usurers, gamblers, and unprincipled\ncheats and seducers. To any heartless, selfish person, the turning of\nthis domino foretells good luck\u2014to all others disappointment. We hope\nthat no young girl turning a domino to ascertain her fortune as to\nmarriage will turn this one, for it surely foretells disappointment and\nsorrow. If she has a lover, and should he marry her, he will desert\nher afterwards. In business matters, too, it is decidedly unfavorable,\nand is a sign that your business will decrease. If you are wanting a\nsituation, you will not be likely to get it, and if anything is lost\nor stolen, it will not probably be recovered again. It is generally\na pretty bad domino for decent people\u2014but a good one for all the\ndishonest ones, who, if they have got anything by trickery and fraud,\nwill be apt to enjoy it.\n\n\n METHOD OF TELLING FORTUNES WITH DICE.\n\nTake three dice, shake them well in the box with your left hand, and\nthen cast them out on a board or table, on which you have previously\ndrawn a circle with chalk; count the number of spots on the uppermost\nsides of the dice, and look at the signification of the numbers, as\ngiven below. Be careful and do not attempt to tell your fortune on\nMondays or Wednesdays, as they are unlucky days for dice. To throw the\nsame number twice at one trial, shows news from abroad, be the numbers\nwhat they may. If the dice roll over the circle, the number thrown goes\nfor nothing, but the occurrence shows sharp words, and if they fall to\nthe floor, it is blows; in throwing out the dice, if one remains on top\nof the other, it is a present of which I leave the ladies to take care.\n\n\n SIGNIFICATION OF THE SPOTS ON DICE.\n\nTHREE. If a young girl throws this number, (three aces,) it foretells\nthat she will have numerous lovers, and if she marries will have a good\ncrop of children, and then become a widow. To a young man it denotes\nthat he will never marry, but will be a great favorite of the ladies,\nand probably a gay seducer. If a married person throws it, he or she\nwill become a widower or widow, as the case may be.\n\nFOUR. To throw this number denotes frivolity in love matters. Unmarried\npersons who throw it will have many lovers or sweethearts, and will not\nbe fully satisfied with either. It foretells to a married woman that\nher husband admires the sex generally quite as much as he does her; but\nit also denotes that she will have many children, and that both herself\nand husband will live to raise them.\n\nFIVE. To throw this number of spots of the dice, foretells good luck\nin a land speculation to any one who is about buying lands. It is a\nvery good number for farmers, prognosticating a fortunate season to\ncome. To lovers it shows that some obstacle will present itself to\ntheir marriage, or else that they will quarrel. In a family it is a\nsign that some person will soon visit there that is not welcome. If you\nare about to go a journey, and throw this number, you will meet some\none who will bother you, or that you dislike, or else some disagreeable\naccident will happen; but the accident will not be serious.\n\nSIX. If a girl throws this number, (three deuces,) it denotes that she\nwill be of gay disposition and have many lovers, but will never marry;\nif she escapes illicit connections, she will be fortunate, and probably\nget some money by will. To a young man it denotes that he will marry\na gay wife, who will be of loose principles; and also that he himself\nwill keep a mistress, and perhaps become a gambler. He will not be poor\nas long as he is young and attractive, but he will either die young or\nbecome poor in middle age. To gamblers, the throwing of this number is\na sign of success in winning money.\n\nSEVEN. If a man throws this number it foretells that he will never\nmarry, but will be lucky in business speculations. A young lady who\nthrows it will be apt to marry a wealthy husband, though he may not\nbe an agreeable companion. To farmers and mechanics it is not a\nparticularly bad number, though it does not promise them much success,\nand it foretells that they will have pretty hard work to keep even with\nthe world.\n\nEIGHT. This is the miser\u2019s throw; those who throw it will probably\nbe well off, though not rich. It foretells a miserly or stingy\ndisposition, and a character too close in money matters to be very\nprosperous. If a girl throw this to test the character of her lover,\nshe may be assured that he will not be poor, though it is possible he\nmay lead her an unhappy life from his selfish and penurious habits.\n\nNINE. If you throw this number with the dice with reference to your\nfuture husband or wife, be assured that you will be lucky in your\nchoice. It foretells an orderly, energetic and industrious person. I\nshould not want a better wife than this number predicts. To a young\ngirl it does not promise riches with a husband, but it foretells thrift\nand plenty, and that she may be rich, too. It is a fair business throw\nalso\u2014foretelling pretty good luck in everything except games of chance,\nand predicting bad luck in such games.\n\nTEN. If a young girl throws this number, she will not marry very soon,\nand perhaps not at all; but she will have good luck in other matters,\nand rise above her present position in society. If a man throws it, he\nwill get a rich wife. It is a favorable number to the male sex in love\nmatters. A married woman who throws it will rise in the world, or have\na legacy left to her.\n\nELEVEN. This throw foretells extravagance and fondness of show and\ndisplay. Those who throw it, or for whose fortune it may be thrown,\nwill probably have the command of means, but all will be spent in\ngimcracks, parties of pleasure, and in adorning the person; and though\nthey may not come to poverty, they will leave nothing but debt to\ntheir heirs. To laboring people it denotes that they will be always in\ndebt, and live above their means.\n\nTWELVE. Shows that an event of some kind is soon to occur in your\naffairs, either for good or evil. To a farmer or a laboring man it\nwill probably be fortunate, but it may be otherwise. To a banker, a\nmoney-dealer, or a jeweler, it is generally a bad omen\u2014to other trades,\nuncertain. It has no special reference to love matters.\n\nTHIRTEEN. I hope no virtuous young girl will ever be so unfortunate as\nto throw this number, unless she be possessed of a resolution as firm\nas a rock, for it foretells that she will be sorely tempted to become\nprofligate. It is emphatically the throw of an unchaste female. If a\nman throws this number, it is a sign that he will never marry, but will\nassociate with harlots, or live with a woman who is not his wife; if he\nthrows it with a view to discover the character of his lady-love, he\nmay guess the result.\n\nFOURTEEN. This is the gambler\u2019s throw, and denotes dishonesty and an\nunprincipled disposition in men, and misfortune in women. If a man\nthrows it, he will be either a gambler or a rich rogue, if he has\nbrains enough, and if his intellect is not sufficient, he will probably\nbe a small swindler, or the favored lover of a lewd woman, or both.\nAlthough these will be his characteristics, yet circumstances may place\nhim in a different position, but he will always be mercenary, selfish,\nimpudent, and without pride of character. To a girl this number\nforetells an unhappy marriage, and misfortune by that means; but if she\nremains single, and keeps clear of lovers, she will avoid the ill omen.\n\nFIFTEEN. If you are a speculating character\u2014a buyer of lottery tickets\nor lottery policies, or are engaged in any games of chance, such as\ngambling, horse-racing, shooting at a mark, betting, or in fact any\nscheme that you expect to win money by, this number foretells bad luck\nand discomfiture. If you try to test your luck in any such matters, and\nthis number turns up, you may be sure you will lose, and had better\ngive up at once. If you want to buy land, you will be apt to get a good\nbargain and be fortunate. This number foretells good luck to a farmer\nputting in his crops, and the same to a girl choosing a husband; for\nthough she may not get a rich man, yet he will be industrious, thrifty,\ncomfortable, and good-hearted. To consumptive people this throw is not\na favorable one, as in many cases it predicts a short life to them.\n\nSIXTEEN. This is an unlucky number to a merchant, a banker, or a\nmechanic. It foretells bad luck of some kind, though it is generally\na forerunner of a brisk and profitable business. An excellent run of\nbusiness may come first, and the bad luck afterwards, or _vice versa_,\nbut the misfortune is sure to come in somewhere. To a farmer this throw\nforetells abundant crops, and to a gold-digger good luck and plenty\nof the precious metal. A young girl who throws it will get a thrifty\nhusband, and have a numerous family.\n\nSEVENTEEN. If you are a girl, and think of getting married, you will\nbe apt to lose your lover unless he is a farmer, a gardener, a\nwell-digger, a gold-miner, a brewer, a coal-heaver, a grave-digger,\nor some occupation that makes him use a shovel a good deal. If you\nthink of marrying any such man, this throw is a good one. For a man\nof any other occupation, it foretells disappointment. To a young man,\nthis number shows that by perseverance and industry he will do well in\nthe world\u2014that his luck will be good if he only tries his best to get\nalong. If you have had anything stolen from you, or have lost valuable\nproperty while walking or riding, this throw is unfavorable; you will\nprobably never recover what you have lost.\n\nEIGHTEEN. People who throw this number may congratulate themselves,\nas it foretells riches, honors, and a happy and contented life. It\npredicts unexceptionable prosperity in all kinds of business, good luck\nin love matters, and advancement to those who are honorably ambitious.\nTo rogues and dishonest people it is an omen of discomfiture, detection\nand punishment.\n\n\n\n\n PALMISTRY,\n\n OR TELLING FORTUNES BY THE LINES OF THE HAND.\n\n\nMany people think the predictions from lines in the hand are all\nguess-work, but it is a mistake, for they are determined by simple\nrules and long observation. Let us explain the matter:\n\nIn the first place each finger has its name.\n\n (1) Forefinger: Jupiter \u2643\n (2) Middle finger: Saturn \u2644\n (3) Ring finger: The Sun \u2a00\n (4) Little finger: Mercury \u263f\n (5) Thumb: Venus \u2640\n\nEach hand has five main lines.\n\n (1) The Life line: L. Vitalis.\n (2) The Natural line: L. Naturalis.\n (3) The Table line: L. Mensalis.\n (4) The Liver line: L. Hepatica.\n (5) The Wrist line: L. Rascetta.\n\n(_See Engraving._)\n\n\n 1. LINEA VITALIS.\n\nIf this line is wanting or nearly so, it is by no means a good sign. It\nsignifies a feeble understanding, a faint heart, and a short, sickly\nlife. This, however, is not the signification in every case; it often\nindicates, especially with the ladies, changeableness of feeling, a\ndisposition easily influenced by others, and a proneness to enthusiasm.\n\n[Illustration: Palm of hand showing the principle lines viz.\n _mensalis_ _naturalis_ _hepatica_ _vitalis_ _rascetta_]\n\nThe length of life is in proportion to the length of the line of Life.\nIt begins between \u2643 and \u2640 and it is here that you commence with the\nprophecy.\n\nEach knot in this line denotes an obstacle, or, at least, something\nmomentous in life. Each crossing by smaller lines, some unpleasant\noccurrence. The larger the cross, the greater the misfortune.\n\nIn most cases one or more lines run from the Natural line to the line\nof Life. This indicates the partner of one\u2019s life. The point where the\njunction takes place denotes the point of time of the marriage. If this\noccurs near the commencement of the line, of course the marriage will\ntake place early in life. If two lines unite with the line of Life it\nindicates two husbands (or wives). If no line joins it, the person will\nremain unmarried.\n\nThe clearer and more distinct the line of Life, the happier the\nperson\u2019s life. When it is fine, deep and sharply defined, it denotes an\nenergetic, and at the same time a noble character.\n\n\n 2. LINEA NATURALIS.\n\nA regular length and good appearance of this line denotes excellent\ndigestive organs. Large crosses occurring in its course signify\nimprudence, precipitation.\n\n\n 3. LINEA MENSALIS.\n\nIf it is well defined it indicates an amorous temperament; if\naccompanied by a side line, it signifies good fortune in love and\nwedlock. If it is very broad, happiness in domestic life. If it is\ninterrupted it denotes that sad calamity, infidelity.\n\n\n 4. LINEA HEPATICA.\n\nIf it is complete and tolerably long, it promises robust health, a\nclear understanding, and good humor. If it throws out branches near its\ncommencement it signifies wit, acuteness, presence of mind, a spirit of\nmischief, perhaps falsehood.\n\n\n 5. LINEA RASCETTA.\n\nWhen it is complete and unbroken, it denotes good fortune in all\nmatters of importance.\n\nFrom the ring finger (Solis \u2a00) there commonly runs one or more lines\ninto the Linea Mensalis. These denote the various inclinations of\nthe heart. If but a single line is actually visible, and if this is\ndeep and long, the person loves or will love faithfully and warmly.\nIf a number of smaller lines are found in its place, the person is\ninconstancy itself, a butterfly roving from flower to flower. Add up\nall these little lines, and the sum will give you the number of times\nthe person will fall in love.\n\n\n\n\n PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOGNOMY.\n\n\nThe science of Phrenology teaches how to discover from the formation\nof the skull the qualities of the soul, and to draw conclusions as to\nthe character of an individual. The whole head, accordingly, is divided\ninto organs. The following are the principal ones, and are all that are\nnecessary for the reader\u2019s instruction. To enter more deeply into the\nsubject would exceed our limits.\n\n 1. Memory.\n 2. Causality.\n 3. Benevolence.\n 4. Approbativeness.\n 5. Painting.\n 6. Energy.\n 7. Imagination.\n 8. Inclination to Melancholy.\n 9. Mischievousness.\n\n(_See Engraving._)\n\n[Illustration: Head showing location of the above organs.]\n\nAccording as these organs are more or less elevated and well formed\nthat peculiarity of character which they indicate is more or less\npresent.\n\nPHYSIOGNOMY, OR THE FEATURES OF THE HEAD AND FACE, teaches us to judge\nof the character of a person and of events connected with his destiny\nfrom the shape, color and expression of his features. If my fair\nreaders would like to know how many husbands they are to have, they\nhave only to knit their eyebrows closely together, and count the folds\nof the skin formed by this movement.\n\nIf they wish to see how many years they have to live, let them elevate\ntheir brows as much as possible, and then count the cross folds in the\nforehead. Subtract the number found from one hundred, and the remainder\nis the number of the years which it is allotted you to pass upon this\nearth.\n\nOF THE NOSE. A bold, projecting nose, usually called a Roman nose,\ndenotes an enterprising temper. In general a large nose is a good sign.\nA long nose is a sign of good sense, a stumpy one generally indicates\nthe contrary. A perfectly straight nose denotes a high and noble\nspirit, unless the expression of the eyes contradicts this judgment,\nand then it denotes great stupidity. A turned up nose signifies a\nspirit of mischief, wit, forwardness, that is, if it is not too\nstumpy. A very small nose indicates good nature, yet at the same time\na complete want of energy. A red nose denotes a cheerful temper, or an\ninclination to drink, as all the world knows.\n\nOF THE LIPS. Very thick lips indicate either great stupidity or very\ngreat genius. Very fine thin lips denote falsehood, especially if\nthey are usually compressed. Swelling lips, if generally compressed,\ndenote great decision of character, a philosophical turn of mind, and\noftentimes somewhat of obstinacy. A mouth always open says as plain as\nwords can speak, \u202f\u201cI am a calf.\u201d\n\nOF DIMPLES. Dimples in the cheeks signify roguery. But the dimple in\nthe chin the God of Love has himself imprinted with his own divine\nfinger.\n\nOF THE EYE. The soul, however, dwells particularly in the eyes, and the\nfaculty is inborn with every man to understand their language without\never having studied it. At least it should be so; the eyes should be\nlike an open book, which all may read and understand. But as all eyes\nare not to be trusted, and will sometimes lead you astray, I will give\nyou, my dear readers, a few rules to guide you in your path through\nlife.\n\nA clear eye, with the pupil in continual, slightly tremulous movement,\ndenotes a good memory, yet something of selfishness with slowness of\ncomprehension.\n\nAn eye which, while the person speaks, roves hither and thither,\ndenotes a deceiver. Very quiet eyes which have an imposing effect\nupon you, and embarrass you by their great repose, signify great\nself-command, yet, at the same time, great self-complacency.\n\nEyes which ordinarily appear impressive, yet often suddenly flash forth\na clear pleasant light, denote true-heartedness and honesty, coupled\nwith a sound understanding.\n\nEyes which have always an inquisitive expression in them, and then\nsuddenly, when they turn to address a person, have an exceedingly kind\nexpression, are not to be trusted. This indicates a suspicious temper,\nand he who does not trust his fellow-man, can seldom himself be trusted.\n\nAn eye in which the white has a yellowish tinge, and is streaked with\nreddish veins, denotes vehement passions.\n\nVery blue eyes, betray a temper inclined to coquetry.\n\nGray eyes, intelligence.\n\nGreenish, falsehood, and a disposition to tittle-tattle.\n\nYellowish, great phlegm.\n\nBlack, a passionate lively temperament.\n\nBrown, a kind, good, happy disposition.\n\nA pair of eyes which looks every one cheerfully and frankly in the\nface, with an air of simple joy and unaffected innocence, yet, when\nsurprised, droops to the ground, with a certain sly bashfulness, or,\nwhen offended by another\u2019s glance, turns aside blushing and confused,\nsuch a pair of eyes, indicates an amiable character, a faithful heart,\na sound understanding, and a pure soul.\n\nA being with such a pair of eyes we cannot help loving, let the eyes be\nblack, brown, blue, gray, green, or yellow, let the nose be stumpy, and\nthe features ill-shaped, no one can help regarding their possessor with\na feeling of hearty kindness and good will, if not with actual love.\n\nOF THE EYE-BROWS. Upright eyebrows are amiable; the eyebrows hanging\nover, indicate an effeminate person; the brows very hairy, denote an\nindustrious, affectionate man; the brows extending to the temples,\nusually signify a slovenly man.\n\nOF THE EARS. Open ears usually indicate but little reason; great ears\nnot too much wisdom; very small ears foolishness; square ears of medium\nsize, prudence.\n\nOF THE NOSTRILS. The nostrils thick and strong, betoken strength; if\nround, fair, and drawn in length, they are a sign that the person is\nmerry and courageous; if narrow and round, they are mostly indicative\nof an envious and foolish person.\n\nOF THE MOUTH. A very large mouth, with the upper lip hanging over,\nusually signifies a foolish, unsteady person, a rash man and a babbler.\nA mouth not too large, indicates a bold and courageous man; and a small\nmouth, a clever man.\n\nOF THE FACE. A lean face is an indication of a wise man; the face plain\nand fat, denotes a person addicted to strife. The face without any\nrising and swelling, indicates a penurious person; a sad face sometimes\ndenotes foolishness, and at other times wisdom; a fat face indicates a\nman to be inclined to untruth; a round face signifies folly; a great\nface denotes a man slow about business; a well-proportioned face\nindicates a person to have virtuous qualities.\n\nOF THE NAILS ON THE FINGERS. Broad nails show the person to be bashful,\nfearful, but of gentle nature. When there is a certain white mark at\nthe extremity of them, it shows that the person has more honesty than\nsubtlety. White long nails denote much sickness, but are sometimes\nindicative of strength and deceit. If upon the white anything appears\nat the extremity that is pale, it denotes short life; but if the white\nis clear and smooth, it signifies long life.\n\nOF THE HEAD. A large head shows a person stupid, and dull of\napprehension; also a very small head signifies the same; but the head\nof a man being neither great nor small, is the prognostic of a wise\nman; for all extremes are irregular and a deviation from nature, and\nexperience has made it manifest, that a great head and small members do\nalways produce great indiscretion and folly in either man or woman; but\nwe must also consider the several parts of the head: and first,\n\nOF THE FOREHEAD. A large forehead shows a liberal man; but the\nforehead narrow, denotes a foolish person; a long forehead shows one\napt to learn; a high forehead, swelling and round, is a sign of a\ncrafty man, and a coward; a forehead full of wrinkles, shows a man to\nbe envious and crafty.\n\nBut in forming your opinions of men from these or other indications,\nyou should always bear in mind that there is no rule without an\nexception.\n\n\n\n\n FORTUNE-TELLING BY MOLES.\n\n\nThese little marks on the skin, although they appear to be the effect\nof chance, or accident, and might easily pass with the unthinking\nfor things of no moment, are nevertheless of the utmost consequence,\nsince from their color, situation, size, and figure, may be accurately\ngathered the temper of, and the events that will happen to the person\nbearing them; though moles are, in their substances, nothing else\nthan excrescences, or ebullitions which proceed from the state of\nthe blood whilst the f\u0153tus is confined in the womb, yet they are not\ngiven in vain, as they are generally characteristic of the disposition\nand temper of those that bear them; and it is also proved by daily\nexperience, that from the shape, situation, and other circumstances,\nthey bear a strong analogy to the events which are to happen to a\nperson in future life. But before I presume to give any directions\nto those who are to form the prognostic, who are desirous to be duly\nenabled to pronounce an infallible judgment, I shall, in the first\nplace, teach you herein the common prognostications by moles found\nin the various parts of the body, according to the doctrine of the\nancients. And, first, it is essentially necessary to know the size\nof the mole, its color, whether it be perfectly round, oblong, or\nangular; because each of these will add to or diminish the force of the\nindication. The larger the mole, the greater will be the prosperity or\nadversity of the person; the smaller the mole, the less will be his\ngood or evil fate. If the mole is round, it indicates good; if oblong,\na moderate share of fortunate events; if angular, it gives a mixture\nof good and evil; the deeper the color, the more it announces favor or\ndisgrace; the lighter, the less of either. If it is very hairy, much\nmisfortune may be expected; if but few long hairs grow upon it, it\ndenotes that your undertakings will be prosperous.\n\nWe shall further remark only, that moles of a middling size and color\nare those which we are now going to speak of. The rest may be gathered\nfrom what we have just above mentioned, but as it may frequently happen\nthat modesty will sometimes hinder persons from showing their moles,\nyou must depend upon their own representation of them for your opinion.\n\n\n SIGNIFICATION OF MOLES.\n\nARM. (_Right or Left._) Show a courteous disposition, great fortitude,\nresolution, industry, and conjugal fidelity; it foretells that the\nperson will fight many battles, and be successful in all; that you will\nbe prosperous in your undertakings, obtain a decent competency, and\nlive very happy\u2014it denotes that a man will be a widower at forty, but\nin a woman it shows that she will be survived by her husband.\n\nANKLE. Shows an effeminate disposition, given to foppery in dress,\nand cowardice in a man; but in a woman it denotes courage, wit, and\nactivity\u2014they foretell success in life with an agreeable partner,\naccumulation of honors and riches, and much pleasure in the affairs of\nlove.\n\nANUS. Around outside this place, a mole predicts that you will be\nindolent, shiftless and poor, though of good capacity.\n\nARM-PITS. You will be very good looking, will become rich, and be\nbenevolent.\n\nBACK. If just below either of the shoulder blades, it signifies\nthat you will have misfortune and defeat in the enterprises you may\nundertake.\n\nBELLY. Shows an indolent, slothful disposition, given to gluttony, very\nselfish, addicted to the pleasures of love and drink, negligent of\ndress, and cowardly; it denotes small success in life, many crosses,\nsome imprisonment, and travelling, with losses by sea; but it foretells\nthat you will marry an agreeable partner of a sweet temper, have\nchildren, who will be industrious and become very respectable in life.\n\nBOSOM. Shows a quarrelsome and unhappy temper, given to low debauchery,\nand exceedingly amorous, indolent and unsteady; it denotes a life\nneither very prosperous nor very miserable, but passed without many\nfriends or much esteem.\n\nBREAST. A mole on the right breast shows an intemperate and indolent\ndisposition, rather given to drink, strongly attached to the joys of\nlove; it denotes much misfortune in life, with a sudden reverse from\nriches to poverty\u2014many unpleasant and disagreeable accidents, with a\nsober and industrious partner\u2014many children, mostly girls, who will all\nmarry well, and be a great comfort to your old age; it warns you to\nbeware of pretended friends, who will harm you much. A mole on the left\nbreast shows an industrious and sober disposition, amorous, and much\ngiven to walking; it denotes great success in life and in love, that\nyou will accumulate riches, and have many children, mostly boys, who\nwill make their fortunes by sea.\n\nA mole under the left breast under the heart, shows a rambling,\nunsettled disposition, given to drinking and little careful of your\nactions; very amorous, and much given to indulge indiscriminately in\nthe pleasures of love, in a man. In a woman it indicates sincerity in\nlove, industry, and a strict regard for character; in life it denotes a\nvaried mixture of good and bad fortune, the former rather prevailing;\nit denotes imprisonment for debt, but not of long duration. To a woman\nit denotes easy labors, and children who will become rich, live happy\nand respected, and marry well.\n\nBUTTOCKS. Signifies shiftlessness and poverty, though a good capacity;\nit is a sign that you will be too lazy to do anything for yourself.\n\nCHEEK. A mole on either cheek, shows an industrious, benevolent and\nsober disposition, given to be grave and solemn, little inclined to\namorous sports, but of a steady courage and unshaken fortitude; it\ndenotes a moderate success in life, neither becoming rich nor falling\ninto poverty\u2014it also foretells an agreeable and industrious partner,\nwith two children, who will do better than the parents.\n\nCHIN. A mole on the chin shows an amiable and tranquil disposition,\nindustrious and much inclined to travelling, and the joys of Venus; it\ndenotes that the person will be highly successful in life, accumulating\na large and splendid fortune, with many respectable and worthy friends,\nan agreeable conjugal partner, and fine children, but also indicates\nlosses by sea and in foreign countries.\n\nEAR. On either ear it denotes riches in man or woman. If on the lower\ntip of the ear, keep off the water, or you will be drowned.\n\nELBOW. A mole on either elbow shows a restless and unsteady\ndisposition, with a great desire for travelling\u2014much discontented\nin the married state and of an idle turn; it indicates no very\ngreat prosperity, rather a sinking than rising condition, with many\nunpleasant adventures, much to your discredit\u2014marriage to a person who\nwill make you unhappy, and children who will be disobedient, and cause\nyou much trouble.\n\nEYE. A mole on the outside corner of either eye shows a sober, honest,\nand steady disposition, much inclined to the pleasures of love;\nit foretells a violent death, after a life considerably varied by\npleasures and misfortunes; in general it foreshadows that poverty will\nkeep at a distance.\n\nEYEBROW. A mole on the right eyebrow signifies a sprightly, active\ndisposition, a great turn for gallantry, much courage, and great\nperseverance; it denotes wealth and success in love, war and business;\nthat you will marry an agreeable mate, live happy, have children,\nand die in an advanced old age, at a distance from home. On the\nleft eyebrow, temple, or side of the forehead, shows an indolent\npeevish temper, a turn for debauchery and liquor, little inclined to\namorous sports and very cowardly; foretells poverty, imprisonment and\ndisappointments in all your undertakings, with undutiful children, and\na bad-tempered partner.\n\nFINGER. On either finger of either hand, it shows that you will be a\nthief, or a dishonest person in some way, and never wealthy.\n\nFOOT. A mole on either foot shows a melancholy and inactive\ndisposition, little inclined to the pleasures of love, given to\nreading and a sedentary life; they foretell sickness and unexpected\nmisfortunes, with many sorrows and much trouble, an unhappy choice of a\npartner for life, with disobedient and unfortunate children.\n\nFOREHEAD. If the mole is in the centre of the forehead it predicts an\nactive, industrious disposition, success in business, riches, honors, a\nhappy marriage, and a son who will be distinguished. But if the mole\nis on the side of the forehead, the signification is not so favorable,\nparticularly if on the left side. (_See Eyebrow._) On the right side\nof the forehead, or right temple, shows an active and industrious\ndisposition, much given to the sports of love; it denotes that she will\nbe very successful in life, marry an agreeable partner, and arrive at\nunexpected riches and honors, and have a son, who will become a great\nman.\n\nGROIN. On the right groin denotes riches and honors, but to be\naccompanied with disease. On the left groin, you will have the sickness\nwithout the wealth.\n\nGULLET. On that part of the throat called the gullet, it predicts that\nyou will be distinguished in some way and become rich.\n\nHAND. Moles on either hand, if not on the fingers, denote wealth,\nindustry and energy in either sex. You will also be fortunate and happy\nin your children.\n\nHEART. Over the heart, denotes wickedness, poverty and a hasty,\nheadstrong disposition. (_See Breast._)\n\nHEEL. Shows a spiteful and malevolent disposition, but a person of much\nenergy, who may be successful in what he undertakes; that he will be\ngreatly talked about behind his back.\n\nHIP. A mole on either hip shows a contented disposition, given to\nindustry, amorous and faithful in engagements, of an abstemious turn;\nit foretells moderate success in life, with many children, who will\nundergo many hardships with great fortitude, and arrive at ease and\naffluence, by dint of their industry and ingenuity.\n\nKNEE. A mole on the left knee shows a hasty and passionate disposition,\nextravagant and inconsiderate turn, with no great inclination\nto industry and honesty, much given to the pleasures of Venus,\nbut possessed of much benevolence; it indicates good success in\nundertakings, particularly in contracts, a rich marriage, and an only\nchild. On the right knee, shows an amiable temper, honest disposition\nand a turn for amorous pleasures and industry; it foretells great\nsuccess in love, and the choice of a conjugal partner, with few\nsorrows, many friends, and dutiful children.\n\nLEG. Moles on either leg show a person of a thoughtless, indolent\ndisposition, of an amorous turn, much given to extravagance and\ndissipation; it denotes many difficulties through life, but that you\nwill surmount them all; it shows that imprisonment will happen to you\nat an early age, but that in general you will be more fortunate than\notherwise; you will marry an agreeable person, who will survive you, by\nwhom you will have four children, two of which will die young.\n\nLIPS. A mole on either lip shows a delicate appetite, a sober\ndisposition, and much given to the pleasures of love, of an industrious\nand benevolent turn; it denotes that the person will be successful in\nundertakings, particularly in love affairs\u2014that you will rise above\nyour present condition, and be greatly respected and esteemed\u2014that you\nwill endeavor to obtain some situation, in which you will at first\nprove unsuccessful, but afterward prevail.\n\nMONS. If a woman have a mole here, she will become the mother of a\ngreat genius, or else the wife of a distinguished personage. It is also\na sign of riches.\n\nMOUTH. (_See Lips._)\n\nNAVEL. On a woman it denotes many children, a good husband, and an\nabundance of this world\u2019s goods. On a man it is a sign he will be lucky\nin all he undertakes, become very rich, and that he will have a son who\nwill be distinguished.\n\nNECK. In front of the neck is a good sign; you will rise to unexpected\nhonors and dignities, or become rich. On the back of the neck it\ndenotes misfortune. On either side of the neck it foretells that you\nwill become wicked or quarrelsome; and if on the right side, behind the\near, it is a sign that you will be hung.\n\nNIPPLE. In woman it is a sign that she will have a child that will\nbecome famous and distinguished in the world. In man it denotes that\nhe will be fond of women, and spend much of his life in amours, to the\nneglect of his proper business.\n\nNOSE. Moles on any part of the nose, show a hasty and passionate\ndisposition, much given to amorous pleasures, faithful to engagements,\ncandid, open, and sincere in friendship, courageous and honest, but\nvery petulant, and rather given to drink; it denotes great success\nthrough life and in love affairs\u2014that you will become rich, marry\nwell, have fine children and be much esteemed by your neighbors and\nacquaintance\u2014that you will travel much, particularly by water.\n\nNOSTRIL. Inside the nostril shows that you will be energetic and\npersevering, and well off in the world; that you will get a good wife\nor husband when you marry.\n\nPRIVATE MEMBERS. Moles on these parts show a generous, open and\nhonest disposition, extremely disposed to gallantry, and the joys of\nVenus, given to sobriety, and of undaunted courage; it denotes great\nsuccess in the latter part of life, but many and severe misfortunes in\nthe former, which will be borne with fortitude; it also foretells a\nhappy marriage and fine children, who will be happy, thrive well, and\ngrow rich and respectable: in man it shows that he will have natural\nchildren, who will cut a great figure in life, but he will experience\nmuch plague and vexation from their mother.\n\nSHIN. (_See Leg._)\n\nSHOULDER. On the left shoulder shows a person of a quarrelsome, unruly\ndisposition, always inclined to dispute for trifles, rather indolent,\nbut much inclined to the pleasures of love, and faithful to the\nconjugal vows. It denotes a life not much varied either with pleasures\nor misfortunes; they indicate many children, and moderate success in\nbusiness, but dangers by sea. On the right shoulder shows a person of\na prudent and discreet temper, one possessed of much wisdom, given to\ngreat secrecy, very industrious, but not very amorous, yet faithful to\nconjugal ties; it indicates great prosperity and advancement in life, a\ngood partner, and many friends, with great profit from a journey to a\ndistant country, about the age of thirty-five.\n\nSIDE. On either side, near any part of the ribs, shows an indolent,\ncowardly disposition, given to excessive drinking, of an inferior\ncapacity, and little inclined to the pleasures of love; it denotes an\neasy life, rather of poverty than riches, little respected, a partner\nof an uneven and disagreeable temper, with undutiful children, who will\nfall into many difficulties.\n\nSTOMACH. If in the pit of the stomach, it shows a person of foppish\ndisposition, with little common sense, though much industry; it also\ndenotes riches. If lower down on the stomach, it is a sign that you\nwill promise more than you will perform, but will nevertheless be\nhighly esteemed.\n\nTHIGH. On the right thigh, it shows the person to be of an agreeable\ntemper, inclined to be amorous, and very courageous: it also denotes\nsuccess in life, accumulation of riches by marriage, and many fine\nchildren, chiefly girls. On the left thigh, shows a good and benevolent\ndisposition, a great turn for industry, and little inclined to the\npleasures of love: it likewise indicates many sorrows in life, great\npoverty, unfaithful friends, and imprisonment by the false swearing of\nsome one.\n\nTHROAT. It predicts a fortunate and wealthy marriage to either sex.\n(_See Neck._)\n\nTONGUE. If a man shall have a mole on his tongue, it foretells that\nhe shall marry with a rich and beautiful woman of great celebrity.\nOn a woman\u2019s tongue it denotes reserve of manner and wisdom; also a\nfortunate marriage.\n\nWRIST. Moles on the wrist, or between that and the finger ends, show\nthe person to be of an ingenious and industrious turn, faithful in\nhis engagements, amorous and constant in his affections, rather of a\nsaving disposition, with a great degree of sobriety and regularity\nin his dealings. It foreshows a comfortable acquisition of fortune,\nwith a good partner, and beautiful children, but some disagreeable\ncircumstances will happen about the age of thirty, which continue four\nor five years. In a man, it denotes being twice married\u2014in a woman only\nonce, but that she will survive her husband.\n\n\n TO CHOOSE A HUSBAND BY THE HAIR.\n\nBLACK. Generally healthy, but apt to be cross; fond where he fixes his\nattachment, and likely to make a good husband, and be careful of his\nfamily: but if short and curly, is usually of an unsettled temper, apt\nto show a want of prudence and carefulness in early life.\n\nWHITE OR FAIR HAIR. Usually of a weak and sickly constitution, fond of\nmusic, and will cut no great figure in the world.\n\nYELLOW. Fond, but inclinable to jealousy; and not always industrious.\n\nLIGHT BROWN. Sensible and good-humored, careful and attentive, and, if\nsaving of his income, generally makes a good husband; but is apt to be\notherwise.\n\nDARK BROWN. Neither very good nor very bad, middling in all respects,\nbut may be regarded as a pretty good character.\n\nVERY DARK BROWN. Of a robust constitution, and of a grave disposition,\nbut sometimes not very good-tempered and sensible, and kind to a good\nwife.\n\nRED. Will be cunning, artful, and fond of female companions; and be\ngenerally of a lively temper, and sometimes careless of money.\n\n\n SIGNIFICATION OF THE NAILS.\n\nBROAD NAILS. The person that hath the nails thus, is of gentle nature,\ngood, and pusillanimous, and a great fear to speak before great\npersons, or those by whom they are in subjection; as also being guilty\nof extreme bashfulness.\n\nIf about these nails there happens to be an excoriation of the flesh,\nwhich is commonly called points\u2014in these large nails it signifies the\nparty given to luxury, yet fearful, but usually given to excess.\n\nWhen there is at the extremity a white mark, it signifies ruin through\nnegligence. The party has more honesty than subtlety.\n\nWHITE NAILS. He that hath the nails white and long, is sickly, and\nsubject to much infirmity by fevers; he is neat but not very strong,\nbecause of his indispositions, much addicted to the company of women by\nwhom he will be greatly deceived.\n\nNARROW NAILS. The person with such nails, is desirous of attaining\nknowledge in the sciences; but is never long at peace with his\nneighbors. But if to narrowness they add some degree of length, the\nperson will be led away by ambitious propensities, always aiming at\nthings which he will be unable to obtain.\n\nROUND NAILS. These declare a hasty person, yet good-natured and very\nforgiving; a lover of knowledge, liberal sentiment, doing no one any\nharm, and acting by his own principles, but too proud of his own\nabilities.\n\nLONG NAILS. When the nails are long, the person is of a good-natured\nturn, but placing confidence in no man, being from his youth familiar\nwith duplicity, but not practising it, from his strict adherence to\nvirtue.\n\nFLESHY NAILS. This description of nail indicates an idler, loving to\nsleep, eat, and drink; not delighting in bustle and busy life; one who\nprefers a narrow income without industry, to one of opulence to be\nacquired by activity and diligence.\n\nLITTLE NAILS. Little round nails discover a person to be obstinately\nangry, seldom pleased, inclining to hate every one, as conceiving\nhimself superior to others, though without any reason.\n\nPALE OR LEAD-COLORED NAILS. A melancholy person, one who through choice\nleads a sedentary life, and would willingly give up all things for the\nsake of study, and to improve in the learned and metaphysical branches\nof philosophy.\n\nRED AND SPOTTED NAILS. Choleric and martial, delighting in cruelty\nand war; his chief pleasure being in plundering towns, where every\nferocious particle in human nature is glutted to satiety.\n\nWhen you find any black spots upon the nails, they always signify evil,\nas white ones are a token of good.\n\n\n\n\n FORTUNE-TELLING BY TEA OR COFFEE GROUNDS.\n\n\nTO POUR OUT THE GROUNDS OF A TEA OR COFFEE CUP.\u2014Pour the grounds of\ncoffee or tea into a white cup, shake them well about in it, so that\ntheir particles may cover the surface of the whole cup; then reverse it\ninto the saucer, that all the superfluous parts may be drained, and the\nfigures required for fortune-telling be formed.\n\nThe person who acts as the fortune-teller, must always bend his or her\nthoughts upon him or her who is to have their fortune told, and on\ntheir rank in life, and profession, in order to give plausibility to\nthe predictions. It is not to be expected that upon taking up the cup,\nthe figures will be accurately represented as they are in reality, but\nit will be quite sufficient if they bear some resemblance to any of the\nemblems; and the more fertile the fancy is of the person that inspects\nthe cup, the more he or she will discover in it.\n\nIn other respects, every one who takes a pleasure in this amusement,\nmust be a judge under what circumstances he or she is to make changes\nin point of time\u2014speaking, just as it suits, in the present, the past,\nor the future; in the same manner, their ingenuity ought to direct them\nwhen to speak more or less pointedly with regard to sex.\n\nTHE ROADS, or separate lines, indicate ways; if they are covered with\nclouds, and, consequently, in the thick, they are said to be infallible\nmarks, either of many great or future reverses. But if they appear in\nthe clear and serene, are the surest token of some fortunate change\nnear at hand; encompassed with many points or dots, they signify either\na gain of money, or long life.\n\nTHE RING signifies marriage; if a letter is near it, it denotes to the\nperson that has their fortune told, the initial of the name of the\nparty to be married. If the ring is in the clear, it portends happy and\nlucrative friendship; if surrounded with clouds, the contrary. But if\nthe ring appear at the bottom of the cup, it forebodes the probability\nof a separation.\n\nTHE LEAF OF CLOVER is, as well here as in common life, a lucky sign.\nIts different position in the cup alone makes the difference; because,\nif it be on the top, it shows that the good fortune is not far distant;\nbut it is subject to delay, if it be in the middle or at the bottom.\nShould clouds surround it, it shows that many disagreeables will\nattend the good fortune; in the clear, it prognosticates serene and\nundisturbed happiness.\n\nTHE ANCHOR. The emblem of hope and commerce, implies successful\nbusiness carried on by water and by land, if on the bottom of the cup;\nat the top and in the clear part, it shows constant love and fidelity;\nbut in thick and cloudy parts, it denotes inconstancy.\n\nTHE SERPENT, always the emblem of falsehood and enmity, is likewise\nhere a general sign of an enemy. On the top or in the middle of the\ncup, it promises to the consulting party that by his always acting\nproperly, his enemies will not be able to triumph over him; if in\nthe thick or cloudy part, he must watch his temper and actions very\ncarefully, to prevent great troubles.\n\nTHE COFFIN. The emblem of death, prognosticates the same thing here, or\nat least a long and tedious illness, if it be in the thick or turbid.\nIn the clear, it denotes long life; if in the thick, at the top of the\ncup, it signifies a considerable estate likely to be made by cautious\nindustry.\n\nTHE DOG, being at all times the emblem of fidelity or envy, has also a\ntwo-fold meaning here. At the top, in the clear, it signifies true and\nfaithful friends: if the image be surrounded with clouds and dashes, it\nshows that some whom you take for your friends are not to be depended\non; but if the dog be at the bottom of the cup, take much care not to\nexcite any person to envy or jealousy, or you will have to dread the\neffects of both.\n\nTHE LILY. If this emblem be at the top, or in the middle of the cup,\nit signifies that the consulting party either has, or will have, a\ngood spouse; if it be at the bottom, it denotes anger. In the clear,\nthe lily further betokens a long and happy life; if clouded, or in the\nthick, it portends trouble and vexations.\n\nTHE CROSS, in general, predicts adversities; if it be at the top, and\nin the clear, it indicates that the misfortunes of the party will soon\nbe at an end, or that he will, by careful conduct, easily get over\nthem; but if it appear in the middle, or at the bottom of the thick,\nthe party must expect many severe trials; if it appear with dots,\neither in clear or thick, it promises recompense for sorrow.\n\nTHE CLOUDS. If they be more bright than dark, you may expect a good\nresult from your hopes; but if they are black, you may give it up.\nSurrounded with dots, they imply success in trade, if you are saving,\nand not too venturesome; the brighter they are, the greater will be\nyour happiness.\n\nTHE SUN, is an emblem of the greatest luck and happiness, if in the\nclear; but in the thick, it denotes a great deal of illness; surrounded\nby dots or dashes, it foretells that, without much circumspection, an\nalteration will soon take place.\n\nTHE MOON. If it appear in the clear, it denotes high honors; in the\ndark or thick parts, it implies disappointment and sadness, which will,\nhowever, pass without great prejudice. But if it be at the bottom of\nthe cup, the consulting party may expect, by industry and prudent\nconduct, to be very fortunate.\n\nTHE STAR denotes happiness, if in the clear, and at the top of the cup;\nif clouded, or in the thick, it signifies long life, though exposed\nto various troubles. If dots are about it, it foretells fortune and\nrespectability. Several dots denote good children; surrounded by dots,\nit predicts that, without good bringing up, they may cause you grief\nand vexation.\n\nMOUNTAINS. If it present only one mountain, it indicates the favor\nof people of rank; but several of them, especially in the thick, are\nsigns of powerful enemies; in the clear, they signify the contrary, or\nfriends in high life.\n\nTHE LETTER. Signifies both pleasant and unpleasant news. If this emblem\nis in the clear part, it denotes the speedy arrival of welcome news;\nsurrounded with dots, it announces the arrival of a remittance of\nmoney; but hemmed in by clouds, it forebodes some melancholy or bad\ntidings, a loss, or some other accident; if it be in the clear, and\naccompanied by a heart, lovers may expect a favorable letter; but in\nthe thick it denotes the contrary.\n\nTHE TREE. One tree only is indicative of good health; a group of trees\nin the clear part, betokens misfortunes, but which may be avoided by\ncarefulness and industrious habits; several trees, wide apart, promise\nthat your wishes will be accomplished; if they be encompassed by\ndashes, it is a token that your fortune is in its blossom, and requires\nonly your own care and prudence to bring it to maturity; if the trees\nbe accompanied by dots, it is a sign of riches.\n\nTHE CHILD. In the clear part it bespeaks innocent intercourse between\nthe consulter and another person; in the thick part it signifies\ncrosses in love matters, and requires your utmost care to prevent great\nexpenses; and a family without means of support.\n\nTHE WOMAN. Signifies much joy in general. If in the clear, this emblem\nshows very great happiness; but in the thick part it cautions against\njealousy. If dots surround the image, it shows children and wealth.\n\nTHE PEDESTRIAN. Denotes in general a merchant, good business, pleasant\nnews, or the recovery of lost things. It denotes to the female a kind\nand industrious husband; it also signifies some engagement, and a short\njourney.\n\nTHE RIDER OR HORSEMAN. Denotes a letter, good news from abroad, a good\nsituation, or the like; it also foretells that a fortune is to be\nobtained by care and industry.\n\nTHE MOUSE. As this animal lives by stealth, it also is an emblem of\ntheft or robbery; if it be in the clear, it shows that your loss will\nbe easily prevented; but if in the thick, you must use your utmost\nwatchfulness.\n\nTHE ROSE, OR ANY OTHER FLOWER. Usually indicates success in science or\nart by study; if married, good children may be expected, and all the\nhappy fruits, if they have but a good education and good examples.\n\nTHE HEART. If it be in the clear, it signifies future pleasure. It\npromises joy at receiving some money, if surrounded with dots. If a\nring or two hearts be together, it signifies that the party may expect\nto be married; if a letter is perceptible near it, it shews the initial\nof the person\u2019s name.\n\nTHE GARDEN, WOOD, OR BUSH. Signifies a large company. In the clear\nand with leaves, it indicates good friends; in the thick, encompassed\nwith streaks, or if without leaves, it is a token of the caprices of\nfortune, and warns the consulting party to be cautious whom they take\nfor their friends.\n\nTHE ROD. Predicts differences with people about matters relating to\nlegacies; in the thick, it denotes some affliction, which will require\nyour utmost care to avert.\n\nTHE BIRD IN GENERAL. In the clear, it signifies that the disagreeables\nand troubles with which you will have to combat, will only be\nsurmounted by persevering in doing good; in the thick, it is a sign\nof good living; also a speedy journey, or voyage, which, if there be\ndashes, is likely to be to a distance.\n\nFISH IN GENERAL. Imply some lucky event by water, if in the clear,\nwhich will either happen to the consulter, or be the means of improving\nhis affairs. If they are in the thick, the consulter may expect to fish\nin troubled water. Surrounded with dots, his destiny warns him to use\ndiligence, temperance and frugality.\n\nTHE LION, OR ANY FEROCIOUS BEAST. At the top, in the clear, it\nsignifies prosperity in your intercourse with people of quality. At the\nbottom it warns the consulter to shun such intercourse and do nothing\nto excite any person to envy his fortune.\n\nWORMS. At the top, or in the middle of the cup, they denote good luck\nin trade and in matrimony; below they warn you against rivals in\ncourtship, and against enviers in your trade and profession.\n\nTHE STYLE. If combined with an hour-glass and in the thick, it denotes\nimminent dangers of all kinds; in love, disappointment; but in the\nclear, it signifies that your sweetheart is faithful and affectionate\ntoward you, and that you are likely to live a long and happy life.\n\n\n\n\n CHARMS AND MAGIC PROGNOSTICATIONS.\n\n\nHerewith I give a few mysterious magic formulas and prognostications,\nfor the most part hitherto known only to wise old men and women, some\nof which I have had confided to me by learned astrologers, and a few\nwere revealed to me by Madame Le Normand, a celebrated fortune-teller,\nin whose predictions the Emperor Napoleon put great confidence.\n\n\n TO PREPARE A LOVE POTION.\n\nThe following substances must be gathered in silence when the full moon\nis in the heavens: Three white rose leaves, three red rose leaves,\nthree forget-me-nots, and five blossoms of Veronica.\n\nAll these things you must place in a vessel, then pour upon them five\nhundred and ninety-five drops of clear Easter water, and place the\nvessel over the fire, or what is better still, over a spirit-lamp. This\nmixture must be allowed to boil for exactly the sixteenth part of an\nhour.\n\nWhen it has boiled for the requisite length of time, remove it from the\nfire, and pour it into a flask. Cork it tightly, and seal it, and it\nwill keep for years without losing its virtue.\n\nThat this potion is certain in its effect I myself will guarantee,\nfor I have gained more than thirty hearts by its help. Three drops\nswallowed by the person whose love you desire, will suffice.\n\n\n ANOTHER MEANS TO COMPEL LOVE.\n\nTake a healthy, well-grown frog. Place it in a box which has been\npierced all over with holes with a stout darning needle or gimlet. Then\ncarry it in the evening twilight to a large ant-heap, place it in the\nmidst of the heap, taking care to observe perfect silence.\n\nAfter the lapse of a week, repair to the ant-heap, take out the box,\nand open it, when in place of the frog you will find nothing but a\nskeleton. Take this apart very carefully, and you will soon find among\nthe delicate bones a scale shaped like that of a fish and a hook. You\nwill need them both. The hook you must contrive to fasten in some way\nor other into the clothes of the person whose affections you wish to\nobtain, and if he or she has worn it, if it is only for a quarter of a\nminute, he will be constrained to love you, and will continue to do so\nuntil you give him or her a fillip with the scale.\n\nThis method is over three thousand years old, and it has been practised\nby thirty-thousand of our ancestors with the most complete success.\n\n\n FOR A GIRL TO ASCERTAIN IF SHE WILL EVER MARRY.\n\nBorrow a wedding-ring from a young married woman\u2014the more recently she\nhas been married the better\u2014and do not tell her, or let her suspect\nyour purpose; wear this ring on the third finger of your left hand at\nleast three hours after sunset before you retire to rest. When you are\nready to go to bed, take half a sheet of pure white paper, with no rule\nmarks or anything upon it, lay down the ring on the paper, and mark\nround it so as to make a circle exactly its size: you then write within\nthe circle, \u202f\u201cWith this ring I hope to wed:\u201d write your name over the\ntop, and your age underneath; fold the paper with a three-cornered\nlove-letter fold, and put it under your pillow. Before getting into\nbed, suspend the ring by a hair of your head over the pillow so that it\nwill hang about six inches above your face. You will then dream of your\nfuture husband if you are ever to marry. If you dream of several men,\nthe one whose appearance pleases you best will be the man. If you dream\nof women or girls exclusively, you will never marry. Sometimes it may\nhappen that your dream is confused, and you have no clear recollection\nof it, or perhaps you may not dream at all, in which case you must\ncontinue the charm, by keeping the paper under your pillow for three\nnights; but the ring is not necessary after the first night.\n\n\n THE STRAW SIGN.\n\nIf you find a blade of straw lying in your chamber, you may expect\na visitor that same day. If there is one grain upon the straw, the\nvisitor will be a gentleman, if not, a lady.\n\n\n THE SCISSOR OR KNIFE PROGNOSTIC.\n\nIf a pair of scissors, a knife, or any other pointed instrument falls\naccidentally from your hand, and sticks in the floor, so that it\nremains upright, you may make every preparation for company, for be\nassured they will not fail to come.\n\n\n THE CAT PORTENT.\n\nWhen the cat licks and trims herself, it is a sign of visitors, but\nthis is probably known to most of my readers already.\n\n\n SIGN OF VISITORS.\n\nFinally, a fourth sign of approaching visitors is the crying of the\nmagpie. Magpies, as is well known, are the most inquisitive creatures\nupon the face of the earth. They fly from place to place, and listen\nto everything. When they find out that any persons have concluded to\npay you a visit, they fly to you at full speed, and bring you the\nnews, for they are as chattering as they are inquisitive. They perch\nthemselves upon your house, or upon a tree which may stand near it, or\non the grass, and there sit and chatter until they think you must have\nunderstood them. Therefore, always give heed to these wise birds, for\nit is well to know when you are to expect visitors.\n\n\n THE NEW MOON.\n\nOn first seeing the new moon, if you happen to look at it over your\nright shoulder, you may make a silent wish, and you will realize it.\nIf a girl thus observes the new moon, and desires to see her future\nhusband, she must repeat to herself (so as not to be heard by any one)\nthe following lines:\n\n New moon, new\u2014pray let me see\n Who my husband is to be:\n The color of his hair,\n The clothes he is to wear,\n And the happy day that he\u2019ll wed me!\n\nIf she is to be married that year, she will positively see the man of\nher choice before the wane of the full moon.\n\n\n THE KEY AND BOOK CHARM.\n\nTo find out the two first letters of a future wife\u2019s or husband\u2019s name,\ntake a small Bible and the key of your front street-door, and having\nopened to Solomon\u2019s Songs, chap. viii., ver. 6 and 7, place the wards\nof the key on those two verses, and let the bow of the key be about\nan inch out of the top of the Bible; then shut the book, and tie it\nround with your garter, so as the key will not move, and the person\nwho wishes to know his or her future husband or wife\u2019s signature, must\nsuspend the Bible, by putting the fore-finger of the right hand under\nthe bow of the key, and the other person in like manner on the other\nside of the bow of the key, who must repeat the following verses,\nafter the other person\u2019s saying the alphabet, one letter to each time\nrepeating them.\n\n[Illustration: the key and book charm.]\n\nIt must be observed, that you mention to the person who repeats the\nverses, before you begin, which you intend to try first, whether\nsurname or Christian name, and take care to hold the Bible steady; and\nwhen you arrive at the appointed letter, the book will turn round under\nyour finger, and that you will find to be the first letter of your\nintended\u2019s name.\n\n Solomon\u2019s Songs, chap. viii., ver. 6 and 7.\n\n \"Set me a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is\n strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are\n coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.\n\n \u202f\u201cMany waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if\n a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be\n utterly contemned.\u201d\n\n\n CARD CHARM.\n\nDraw all the face cards from the pack and put them into your stocking\non a Friday night, placing the stocking under your pillow. You must\nfind out by the Almanac the precise time the sun rises on Saturday\nmorning, and at that moment draw a card. A king denotes a speedy\nmarriage; a queen means delay or celibacy; a Jack is a gay seducer who\nwill give you trouble. Diamonds are riches, hearts true love, spades\nthrift, and clubs poverty.\n\n\n THE SPIDER OMEN.\n\nIt is considered an ill omen when one sees a spider _in the morning_.\nThe earlier in the morning, and the larger the spider, the greater the\nevil which threatens you. It is _within doors_, however, and chiefly\n_in one\u2019s own chamber_, that the spider has this signification\u2014out of\ndoors they forebode no harm. The _wood spider_ especially, is not much\nto be dreaded; what I have said above refers particularly to the _house\nspider_. Never, on any account, kill a wood spider. By such an act you\nwould only draw upon yourself the hatred of the whole race of witches,\nand sooner or later you would suffer from it.\n\nWhen found _in the evening_, a spider signifies good luck. The smaller\nthe spider, the greater the good fortune. I will here teach you the\nfollowing rhyme:\n\n \u202f\u201cMatin, chagrin,\n Soir, espoir.\u201d\n\nLittle spiders have much less evil in them than the others, and those\ncalled daddy-long-legs are always messengers of good luck.\n\n\n THE STRING TOKEN.\n\nIf your shoe-tie or apron string breaks, your sweetheart is thinking of\nyou.\n\n\n SIGN WHEN YOUR RIGHT EAR TINGLES.\n\nIf your _right ear_ tingles, some one is speaking _well_ of you, if\nthe _left ear_ tingles, some one is speaking _ill_ of you. To find\nout who this some one is, you must call out aloud the names of your\nacquaintance, one after another. The name at which the tingling ceases\nis the name of the person.\n\n\n SIGN WHEN TOUR NOSE ITCHES.\n\nIf your nose itches early in the morning, you will on that very day\nhear a piece of news.\n\n\n STRANGE BED.\n\nLay under your pillow a prayer-book, opened at the matrimonial service,\nbound round with the garters you wore that day, and a sprig of myrtle\non the page that says \u202f\u201c_With this ring I thee wed_,\u201d and your dream\nwill be ominous, and you will have your fortune as well told as if you\nhad paid a dollar to an astrologer.\n\n\n THE SIGN OF A SNEEZE.\n\nIf any one tells you anything, and you are shortly after obliged to\nsneeze, you may be sure that what was told you is true.\n\n\n THE DEATH-TICK.\n\nIf you hear a wood-tick or death-watch ticking anywhere in the house,\nyou must try to get rid of it as soon as possible, or you will speedily\nhear of a death which will greatly afflict you.\n\n\n THE CRICKET.\n\nIf there is a cricket in the house, be careful on no account to disturb\nit. Think of Dickens\u2019 _Cricket on the Hearth_.\n\n\n AN OMEN OF RICHES.\n\nWhen an _ant-heap_ gathers in your house, it signifies _coming\nwealth_\u2014you may, however, destroy the nest.\n\n\n THE FROG PROGNOSTIC.\n\nIf the first _frog_ that you see in the spring of the year is sitting\nupon _dry ground_, it signifies that, during the same year, you will\nshed as many tears as the frog would require to swim away in.\n\n\n THE CANDLE TOKEN.\n\nWhen a large red token forms in the flame of a candle-wick, it\nsignifies that the one who first sees it will soon receive a letter.\n\n\n THE STAR AUGURY.\n\nWhen you are out of doors on a starlit evening, and shooting stars\nappear, turn your face upward to the stars, and utter in a whisper the\nwish nearest your heart. If a star shoots while you do this, you may be\nsure that the wish will be fulfilled.\n\n\n HOW TO BE SURE OF A PARTNER AT A DANCE.\n\nWhen you wish to be sure of many partners at a dance or ball, let\na little brother or sister, or any other person _hold a thumb for\nyou_\u2014that is, keep her hand closed like a fist for a quarter of an\nhour, holding her _thumb_ between the _fore_ and _middle finger_, while\nshe thinks of you, and wishes you good luck. This proceeding has a\nwonderful effect.\n\n\n THE BRIDE\u2019S OMEN.\n\nIf you would have fair weather on your wedding day, you must always\nfaithfully feed the cats. It is true it is a common error when persons\nthink that it forebodes evil when it rains upon the bride _in her\nbridal dress_. This is no evil omen, but the contrary. But, above all\nthings, let her be careful not to allow her _shoes to get wet_. If my\nyoung readers would take the trouble to read Frederika Bremer\u2019s work\ncalled \u202f\u201cThe House,\u201d they would find in it a confirmation of this\nwarning.\n\n\n TO KNOW IF A WOMAN WITH CHILD WILL HAVE A GIRL OR BOY.\n\nWrite the proper names of the father and the mother, and of the month\nshe conceived with child, and likewise adding all the numbers of those\nletters together, divide them by seven; and then, if the remainder be\neven, it will be a girl, if uneven, it will be a boy.\n\n\n THE CROW SIGN.\n\nIf you wish to know how matters will go with you during the year, you\nmust take good heed of the first _crow_ that you see in the spring. If,\nwhen you first see it, it is _flying_, it signifies that you will take\na journey that will be longer or shorter, according to the distance\nwhich the bird flies before it alights. It may also signify a complete\n_change of abode_, perhaps by a wedding. If you first see the bird\n_sitting_, you will remain at home; if _cawing_, much that you do not\nthink of will happen to you; if upon _one leg_, fortune will not smile\nupon you.\n\n\n THE RABBIT AUGURY.\n\nIf, when in the open field, or upon the highroad, a _rabbit runs across\nyour path_, it signifies that something _unpleasant_ will happen to you.\n\n\n THE SHEEP AND SWINE TOKEN.\n\nIf you are going to pay a visit, and you meet with _sheep_, you will be\nvery _welcome_; but if you meet with _swine_, you will be _unwelcome_.\n\n\n A CHARM AGAINST NIGHTMARE.\n\nIf you wish to be secure against the nightmare in your sleep, place\nyour shoes side by side upon the floor, at the foot of the bed, so\nthat the toes will point _not_ toward the bed, but in the contrary\ndirection, as if they were _going from it_.\n\n\n WHAT A SPIDER WEB FORETELLS.\n\nIf you are walking with a young man at a time when the so-called\ngossamer, those snow-white spider\u2019s threads, are floating about in the\nair, and one of these delicate fibrous veils sweeps by, _and forms\na band between you and him_, it is a sign that feelings of a tender\nnature will some day bind you to each other.\n\n\n HOW TO GET A SWEETHEART.\n\nIf a thick, long spider\u2019s web hangs anywhere from the ceiling, you must\nsweep it down as soon as possible, for it signifies a _suitor_, and the\none that gets the web will have him.\n\n\n WHAT A PRICK IN THE FINGER SIGNIFIES.\n\nIf you are sewing upon a new dress, apron, &c., &c., and you prick your\nfinger with the needle so as to bring blood, it is a sign that when you\nfirst wear the garment you will receive many kisses.\n\n\n EASTER WATER.\n\nIn speaking of a love potion, I made mention of _Easter water_; many\nof my readers have, I suppose, never heard of this singular kind of\nwater. I will explain it to you. It is water which is drawn from the\nriver upon Easter morning, before the sun has shone upon it. To obtain\nit, therefore, you must rise on Easter morning while it is still\nquite dark, take your way to the river in silence, fill your pitcher\nin silence, and then make your way home in silence, without looking\nbehind you. You may then go to bed again and have your sleep out. This\nEaster water has this peculiarity: _it will keep sweet throughout\nthe whole year_. You can, therefore, fill as many bottles with it as\nyou please, cork them tightly, and lay them away. Besides its use in\nthe above-named love potion, it is beneficial in various maladies,\nespecially in diseases of the eye, and, in addition to this, it is an\napproved cosmetic.\n\n\n THE RYE CHARM.\n\nIf you would have bread and cake in plenty during the whole year, hang\na full sheaf of rye and a full sheaf of wheat upon a pole outside the\ndoor, on Christmas morning, so that the birds may come and feed from it.\n\n\n NUMEROUS METHODS OF TELLING FORTUNES ON NEW YEAR\u2019S EYE.\n\nThe evening which of all others is the most adapted for witchery, is\nNew Year\u2019s eve. It is a very ill practice to spend this evening _at\na ball_, and it is an acknowledged fact that ill luck, more or less,\nfollows a person throughout the year, who has _danced the old year out\nand the new year in_.\n\nYou should spend New Year\u2019s eve with a small circle of near and dear\nfriends, around a punch-bowl, while you seek to inquire what the future\nhas in store for you. In the first place this may be done with _melted\nlead or wax_. Some of you, perhaps, are acquainted with this method of\ninquiring of the future, yet there may be many among your number who\nare still ignorant of it. Now, as it is of the highest interest in the\nworld that these should know the process, I will here give, for their\nbenefit, a short explanation of it, which the others may skip over.\n\n\n THE LEAD AND WAX SPELL.\n\nTake a good-sized piece of lead or wax, (the former is better,) place\nit in a melting-ladle, and dissolve it over the coals, or over a\nspirit-lamp, into which you have poured a little alcohol. You must then\ntake a vessel full of water, (a bowl is best, that is not too deep nor\ntoo shallow,) and pour into it the lead or wax, and from the various\nfigures which it forms in the water you endeavor to tell your fortune.\n\n\n THE SAUCER CHARM.\n\nThe following is another method: you take four saucers; in one you\nput a _ring_, in another a _sprig of myrtle_, in the third a _piece\nof money_, and in the fourth _nothing_. The individuals composing\nthe company must now walk around the table, blindfold, one after the\nother, and choose one of the saucers, which, in the mean time, have\nbeen changed as to place. Those among the company who choose the ring,\nwill be _betrothed_ in the course of the year; _myrtle_ signifies\nwedlock, the _piece of money wealth_, the _empty saucer_ no change of\ncircumstances.\n\n\n HOW TO TELL THE FIRST LETTER OF YOUR FUTURE WIFE OR HUSBAND\u2019S NAME.\n\nIf you wish to know the letter with which your future wife or husband\u2019s\nname commences, write all the letters of the alphabet, separately, upon\nsmall pieces of paper, put these pieces in a box, and draw one out\nblindfold.\n\nAll this may be done before twelve o\u2019clock. Exactly at the stroke of\nmidnight, however, you can summon up your future husband or wife, and\nbehold his or her image _up the chimney_.\n\n\n THE CANDLE SPELL.\n\nThe following is another method: Take _two candles_, go a little\nbefore twelve o\u2019clock into an adjoining chamber\u2014no one on any account\nmust follow you\u2014place yourself before the _mirror_, and exactly as it\nstrikes _twelve_, call out your own name in full, _three times_. When\nthe last sound has died away, you will see in the glass your future\nhusband looking over your shoulder.\n\nThe company may not remain together after twelve o\u2019clock. When the old\nyear is out and the new year in, you must embrace, and kiss each other,\nand then go home. You must not yet go to bed, however, but must first\ndevote an hour to solitude, to reflect upon all which the past year has\nbrought with it, and to commit to writing the chief occurrences, as\nwell as the state of your minds. It would be well to keep a book for\nthis purpose, in which you should read and write only on a new-year\u2019s\neve, and at other times keep carefully stored away. I have always done\nthis, and I can assure you, that it is with a feeling of sad, sweet\ninterest, that I now read, each new-year\u2019s eve, of the eighty-nine\nyears of my life.\n\n\n THE NUTSHELL WITCHERY.\n\nAmong the witcheries which you may perform on a new-year\u2019s eve, there\nis one to which I have not alluded. Each person of the company, to wit,\ntakes a _nutshell_, and, after lighting a _wax taper_, places it in the\nshell. A basin of water is then brought. You now place the nutshells,\nwith the burning tapers in them, in the basin. Some will incline toward\neach other as they float along, others will repel each other, until, at\nlast, all are extinguished or sunk. What conclusions in reference to\nthe future, are to be drawn from the various movements of these tiny\nmagic skiffs, your own quick wits will tell you.\n\n\n THE BRIDGE OMEN.\n\nAfter you have gone home, and have devoted an hour to the solitary task\nwhich I counselled you (see CANDLE SPELL), take a _glass of water_,\ncut a small _chip of wood_, and lay it crosswise upon the glass, so\nthat it stretches like a bridge, from one end to the opposite one. Then\nplace this glass under your bed. The consequence will be that you will\ndream during the night that you are walking over a bridge, and that you\nfall into the water. A gentleman, however, appears and rescues you.\nThis same gentleman, whom you will see very distinctly, be careful to\nremember, for he is your future husband. A gentleman can make the same\nexperiment, and he will dream the same thing, with the difference only,\nthat it is a lady who rescues him, and she is to be his future wife.\n\n\n THE HAIR SPELL.\n\nIf you wish any person to think of you, pluck a hair from your head,\nand blow it out into the air toward that quarter of the heavens in\nwhich the person lives, while, at the same time, you call out the name\nof this person _three times_, at the top of your voice. During this you\nmust be entirely alone, and must have thought intently upon the person\nfor, at least, a quarter of an hour beforehand. At the same instant he\nwill experience a strange unearthly shudder or thrill, and his thoughts\nwill turn irresistibly toward you.\n\n\n SIGN WHEN YOU WET YOUR APRON.\n\nWhen you are washing, if you are apt _to wet your apron_ a great deal,\nit is a sign that your future husband will be a tippler. Take good heed\ntherefore!\n\n\n THE NAIL TOKEN.\n\nIf a person has nails that are all bitten to pieces, and gnawed close\nto the quick, it signifies an evil, malicious character, and you have\nevery reason in the world to be on your guard in your intercourse with\nsuch a person.\n\n\n\n\n HOW TO DETERMINE THE LUCKY AND THE UNLUCKY DAYS OF ANY MONTH IN THE\n YEAR.\n\n\nAscertain from the Almanac the day on which a full moon occurs, and\ncount the number of days from that to the end of the month: you then\nmultiply the number of days in the month by the number ascertained as\nabove, and the total will give you the lucky days (subject to a further\ntest hereafter explained), which must be reckoned this wise: if the\ntotal happens to be, say 516, the lucky days of that month would be\nthe 5th and 16th, and if it should be 561, the days are the same, for\nyou must always transpose the figures, when they will work together.\nSuppose that instead of 516, the total should be 399; as neither of\nthese figures can be paired, the lucky days from that total are the\n3d and 9th, and the 9th would be considered doubly lucky, if no tests\nworked to the contrary.\n\nThe unlucky days are determined in precisely the same manner, by\nmultiplying the number of days in the month by the number which had\npassed previous to a full moon.\n\nAfter working out your list of lucky days, in the manner above\ndescribed, you must then test them, in order to be sure that there are\nno opposing influences. You can do this by calculating the unlucky\ndays. Should you find that any day of the month which was designated as\nlucky came also in the list of unlucky days, the latter preponderates,\nand you must strike it from the lucky list.\n\nThis plan of demonstrating lucky and unlucky days is very ancient,\nand has been tested to such an extent that it is considered accurate\nby most astrologers. In old times, before the mass of the people\nunderstood much about figures, the professional fortune-tellers\ndemanded a large fee for casting the lucky days of any month, which\nthey accomplished in the manner above described.\n\nLucky marriage days for girls were cast in the same manner, except\nthat the age of the girl was used as the multiplicator, or multiplier,\ninstead of the number of days in the month. The result was determined\nsimilarly, and also by a test of the unlucky days. Thus, if a girl\nis 18 years old, and thinks of marrying in October, she takes up an\nAlmanac and ascertains the day of the full moon in that month. It\noccurs on the 24th, and there are 31 days in the month: this leaves 7\nfor the multiplier. She multiplies this by her age, 18, and the result\nis 106, which shows the lucky days in that month for her to marry are\nthe 10th and 6th, unless they are destroyed by the test, which is\ndetermined as follows: There are 23 days before the 24th, and she must\nmultiply 23 by 18, which gives 414, and shows that the 4th and 14th are\nthe only unlucky days for her to marry; and as they do not conflict\nwith the lucky days, the 6th and 10th may be considered as genuine\nlucky days for that month, reckoning the moon to have fulled on the\n24th. In determining her age, she should reckon any period over half a\nyear a full year.\n\n\n\n\n THE DIVINING ROD:\n\n OR, HOW TO TELL WHERE TO DIG FOR WATER AND ALL KINDS OF METALS.\n\n\nSo early as Agricola, a celebrated conjuror who lived in ancient times,\nthe divining rod was in much request, and has obtained great credit\nfor its discovering where to dig for metals and springs of water; for\nsome years past its reputation has been upon the decline, but lately it\nhas been revived, and with great success, as I have myself found from\nnumerous experiments that its effects are more than imagination, and\nto enable others to do the like, I have laid down some short rules, as\nfollows:\n\nDIRECTIONS FOR CHOOSING RODS. The hazel and willow rods, I have by\nexperience found, will actually answer with all persons who are in a\ngood state of health, if they are used with moderation, and at some\ndistance of time, after meals, when the operator is in good spirits.\nThe hazel, willow, and elm are all attracted by springs of water. Some\npersons have the virtue intermittently; the rod in their hands will\nattract one half hour, and repel the next. The rod is attracted by\nwater, all metals, coals, amber, and lime-stone, but with different\ndegrees of strength.\n\nThe best rods are those from the hazel, or nut-tree, as they are\npliant and rough, and are best cut in the winter months; a shoot that\nterminates equally forked is to be preferred, (_See Fig. 1_,) about two\nfeet and a half long; but as such a fork is rarely to be met with, two\nsingle ones of a length, and size may be tied together with thread, and\nthey will answer as well as the others. (_See Fig. 2._)\n\n[Illustration: Fig. 1. Fig. 2.]\n\nThe most convenient and handy method of holding the rod is with the\npalms of the hands turned upward, and the two ends of the rod coming\noutward; the palms should be held horizontally as nearly as possible;\nthe part of the rod in the hands ought to be straight, and not bent\neither backward or forward; the upper part of the arm should be kept\npretty close to the sides, and the elbows resting on them, the lower\npart of the arm making nearly a right angle with the upper, though\nrather a little more acute; the rod ought to be so held that, in its\nworking, the sides may move clear of the little fingers. The position\nof the rod, when properly held, is much like the following figure,\n(_see Fig. 3_,) where the distance between the four downward lines is\nthe part supposed to be held in the hand.\n\n[Illustration: Fig. 3.]\n\nThe best manner of carrying the rod is with the end prolaided in an\nangle of about eighty degrees from the horizon, as by this method of\ncarrying, the repulsion is more plainly perceived than if it was held\nperpendicularly. But after all the directions that can be given, the\nadroit use of it can only be attained by practice. It is necessary that\nthe grasp should be steady, for if, when the rod is going, there should\nbe the least succession or counteraction in the hands, though ever\nso small, it will greatly impair, and generally totally prevent its\nactivity, which is not to be done by the mere strength of the grasp,\nfor provided this be steady, no strength can stop it.\n\nAs soon as the person\u2019s foremost foot comes near the attracting body,\nthe end of the rod is repelled toward the face. (_See Fig. 4._) Then\nopen the hands a little, replace the rod, and approach nearer, and the\nrepulsion will be continued until the foot is on or over the attracting\nbody. When this is the case, the rod will first be repelled a little,\nviz., two or three inches, and then be attracted toward it.\n\n[Illustration: Fig. 4.]\n\nWhen it hath been drawn down, it must not be thrown back without\nopening the hands, a fresh grasp being necessary to every attraction,\nbut the least opening of the hand is sufficient. As long as the person\nstands over the attracting body, the rod continues to be attracted,\nbut as soon as the fore foot is beyond it, then the rod is drawn down\nbackward to the face. Metals have different degrees of attraction:\ngold is strongest, next copper, then iron, silver, tin, lead, bones,\ncoals, springs of water and lime-stone. To make common experiments,\nset the foot on a piece or coin of any of these metals, having the rod\nin your hands as before directed. In using the rod to discover springs\nand metals, let the person hold the rod as already directed, and then\nadvancing north or south with a slow pace, just one foot before the\nother, at first the rod may be repelled, but as the person advances\nslowly, and comes over the spring, or vein of ore, the rod will be\nstrongly attracted. The divining rod is sometimes called _Divina\nVirgula_, and sometimes _The Luck Rod_.\n\n\n JUDGMENTS DRAWN FROM THE MOON\u2019S AGE.\n\n1. A child born within twenty-one hours after the new moon will be\nfortunate and live to a good old age; whatever is dreamt on this day\nwill be fortunate and pleasant to the dreamer; various undertakings\nwill succeed on this day.\n\n2. This is a very lucky day for discovering things lost or hidden;\nthe child born on this day will thrive, but the dreams are not to be\ndepended upon.\n\n3. A child born on this day will be fortunate through persons in power,\nand all dreams will prove true.\n\n4. This day is bad; persons failing on this day rarely recover; the\ndreams will have no effect.\n\n5. This day is favorable to begin a good work, and the dreams will\nbe tolerably successful; the child born on this day will be vain and\ndeceitful.\n\n6. The dreams of this day will not immediately come to pass; and the\nchild born will not live long.\n\n7. Do not tell your dreams on this day; if sickness befall you on this\nday you will soon recover; the child born will live long, but have many\ntroubles.\n\n8. Dreams of this day will come to pass; business begun on this day\nwill prosper, and anything lost will be found.\n\n9. This day differs little from the former, the child born on this day\nwill acquire great riches and honor.\n\n10. This day is likely to be fatal; those who fall sick will rarely\nrecover; the child born on this day will be devoted to religion, and of\nan engaging form and manner; if a female, she will possess an uncommon\nshare of wisdom and learning; this day is good to begin a journey, to\nmarry, or to engage in business.\n\n11. Dreams on this day are fortunate; and the child born will live\nlong, and be very sensible; but a person who falls sick on this day\nrarely recovers.\n\n12. Dreams on this day will quickly prove true.\n\n13. If you ask a favor on this day, it will be granted.\n\n14. The sickness that befalls a person on this day is likely to prove\nmortal; what was lost yesterday may be found to-day.\n\n15. The child born on this day will be of ill manners and unfortunate;\nit is a good day for dealing in merchandise.\n\n16. The child born on this day will be foolish; it is an unlucky day to\nmarry, or to begin any kind of business on.\n\n17. The child born on this day will be very valiant, but will suffer\nhardships; if a female, she will be chaste and industrious, and live\nrespected to a great age.\n\n18. This day is dangerous; the child born will be dishonest.\n\n19. Dreams on this day will be vain and untrue; the child born will\ngrow up healthy and strong, but be of a selfish and ungentle turn of\nmind.\n\n20. The child born will be fortunate, and of a cheerful countenance,\nreligious, and much beloved; any kind of business begun, on this day\nwill be unfortunate.\n\n21. The child born on this day will be of an ungovernable temper,\nforsake his friends, wander in a foreign land, and be unhappy through\nlife; it is a happy day to marry on; and all business begun on this day\nwill be successful.\n\n22. The child born on this day will be wicked, meet with many dangers,\nand come to an untimely end; it is a very unfortunate day, and\nthreatens everything with disappointment and crosses: whoever falls\nsick on this day seldom recovers.\n\n23. Dreams on this day are certain; and the child born or this day will\nbe rich and greatly esteemed.\n\n24. This day is favorable for dreams; and the child born will be of a\nsweet and amiable disposition.\n\n25. This day is bad for dreams, and those who fall sick on it, are in\ngreat danger; the child born on this day will be its parents\u2019 delight,\nbut will not live to any great age.\n\n26. This day is good for dreams, but children born on it will\nexperience many hardships, though in the end, they may turn out happily.\n\n27. This is a very unfortunate day to look for anything that is lost,\nbut a child born on this day will make a great stir in the world,\neither as a statesman, soldier, physician, or clergyman.\n\n28. A child born upon this day will live to be a rich and truly good\nman if born before noon, but if born after that hour, it is to be\nfeared that he will be dissipated or worthless.\n\n29. Dreams on this day are not worth a moment\u2019s attention, for rest\nassured they will never be fulfilled. Never buy a lottery ticket on\nthis day.\n\n\n\n\n TO KNOW THE TEMPER AND DISPOSITION OF EVERY ONE.\n\n\n THE SIGNS OF A CHOLERIC DISPOSITION ARE,\n\n1. The habit of the body hot in touch, dry, lean, hard, and hairy.\n\n2. The color of the face, yellow.\n\n3. A natural dryness of the mouth and tongue.\n\n4. The thirst great, and frequent.\n\n5. Activity and inquietude of the body.\n\n6. The pulse hard, swift, and often beating.\n\n7. The spittle bitter.\n\n8. The dreams are most of yellow things, of brawls, of fights and\nquarrels.\n\n\n THE SIGNS OF A SANGUINE CONSTITUTION ARE,\n\n1. The habit of the body hot in touch, fleshy, soft and hairy.\n\n2. The color of the body fresh, sanguine and lively.\n\n3. A natural and constant blush in the face.\n\n4. The pulse soft, moist, and full.\n\n5. The spittle sweet.\n\n6. Dreams most commonly of red things, of beauty, feasting, dancing,\nmusic, and all jovial and pleasing recreations.\n\n7. A continual habit of pleasantness and affability.\n\n8. Often affected with jests, mirth, and laughter.\n\n\n THE SIGNS OF A PHLEGMATIC CONSTITUTION ARE,\n\n1. The habit of the body, cold and moist; in touch, soft, fat, gross,\nand not hairy.\n\n2. A constant natural whiteness, or wanness in the face.\n\n3. The pulse soft, slow, and rare.\n\n4. The thirst little, and seldom desiring drink.\n\n5. The dreams usually are of white things, floods, inundations, and\naccidents belonging to water.\n\n6. Sleep, much and frequent.\n\n7. Slowness and dulness of the body to exercise.\n\n\n THE SIGNS OF A MELANCHOLY CONSTITUTION ARE,\n\n1. The body in touch, cold, dry, lean, and smooth.\n\n2. The body of a dark, dull, gloomy, leaden color.\n\n3. The spittle in small quantities, and sour.\n\n4. Pulse little, rare and hard.\n\n5. They dream of terrible things, as ghosts, wild beasts, etc.\n\n6. Greatly oppressed with fear.\n\n7. Constancy in the performance of the thing intended.\n\n\n THE SIGNS OF A GENEROUS PERSON ARE,\n\n1. The forehead large, fleshy, plain and smooth.\n\n2. The eye moist and shining.\n\n3. The countenance expressing joy and content.\n\n4. The voice pleasant.\n\n5. The motion of the body, slow, etc.\n\n\n THE SIGNS OF AN ILL-NATURED PERSON.\n\n1. The form of the body meagre and lean.\n\n2. The forehead cloudy, sullen and wrinkled.\n\n3. The eye cast down and malicious.\n\n4. A nimble tongue.\n\n5. Walking a short, quick, uneven pace.\n\n6. A secret murmuring to himself as he walks.\n\n\n\n\n SIGNIFICATION OR LANGUAGE OF THE FLOWERS.\n\n\nNo Book on Fortune-telling and Dreams would be complete without the\nsignification of the flowers. If we dream of, or have those smiles of\nnature given to us, we should at once consult the language of Flora and\nascertain what our dream or present signifies.\n\nIt is no new thing to attach a sentiment or meaning to each flower.\nIn Eastern lands flowers have a language which all understand. It is\nthat \u202f\u201cstill small voice\u201d which is powerful on account of its silence.\nIt is one of the chief amusements of the Greek girls to drop these\nsymbols of their esteem or scorn upon the various passengers who pass\ntheir latticed windows, and the traveller can read upon Egyptian rocks\naccounts of the conquests of that ancient people recorded by foreign\nplants. Accompanying, we give a complete dictionary of the meaning of\nthe flowers.\n\nACACIA BLOSSOM. Come to my heart!\n\nACONITE\u2014BLUE. Flatterer! are you to be trusted?\n\nACONITE\u2014YELLOW. Your caprice is unendurable.\n\nALPINE ROSE. Love must venture; timidity can never win.\n\nAMARANTH. The earthly only can become the spoil of the grave; love is\nimmortal, and belongs to heaven.\n\nANEMONE. My thought by day, and my dream by night.\n\nANEMONE-WOOD. Your cruelty is destroying me.\n\nANISE. You must mend your manners.\n\nAPPLE BLOSSOM. Who plucks the blossoms, destroys his hopes of fruit.\n\nAPRICOT BLOSSOM. Are you always so gay, so trifling?\n\nASTER. Weep no longer\u2014you will find him again above the stars.\n\nASPEN-LEAF. Your heart beats for every one, therefore no heart beats\nfor you.\n\nAURICULA. Who would not love you?\n\nBALSAM. Splendor dazzles, grace alone enchains.\n\nBALSAM-ROSE. Let my image dwell always in your heart.\n\nBARLEY. Come again to-morrow.\n\nBEAN BLOSSOM. Forgive me, I misunderstood you.\n\nBIRCH BRANCH. How sweetly are sorrow\u2019s tears dried up on the bosom of a\nsympathizing friend.\n\nBLACKBERRY BRANCH. Contentment and love.\n\nBLUE-BOTTLE. Be simple and humble, and life will always appear to you\nin heavenly colors.\n\nBOX-WOOD. I hope continually.\n\nBUCKWHEAT BLOSSOM. Not idle show, quiet domestic virtues alone ensure\nlasting happiness.\n\nBURR. Like seeks like.\n\nBUTTER-CUP. Your presence is consoling to me.\n\nCABBAGE-LEAF. When you come again, come sober.\n\nCAMOMILE. Could you, then, love anybody beside yourself?\n\nCARNATION. How I burn!\n\nCENTAURY. You seek money only\u2014I will not waste my love upon you.\n\nCHERRY BLOSSOM. When will love tinge your cheeks?\n\nCHESTNUT BLOSSOM. Always as to-day.\n\nCLOVER BLOSSOM. I will live for you.\n\nCOLUMBINE. Your words sound well, but what says your heart?\n\nCROWN-IMPERIAL. Let me be your slave, and I am happy.\n\nCUCKOO-FLOWER. I like not long complainings.\n\nCURRANT-TWIG. Whoever loves me must share my sorrow, and respect my\ngrief.\n\nCYPRESS. When my heart is broken, and I lie in the cold grave give me\nat least a tear.\n\nDAFFODIL. Let me not pine!\n\nDILL. Love strengthens\u2014I will protect you.\n\nELDER BLOSSOM. Your fidelity is destined to a sweet reward.\n\nFIG-LEAF. I am ashamed.\n\nFLAX. Do you love me for myself?\n\nFOX-GLOVE. None but a fool could be as forward as you.\n\nGILLIFLOWER. Where you are, it is always spring.\n\nGRAPE-VINE. Fear not! Love conquers!\n\nGRASS. Love for love, truth for truth.\n\nHAZEL-TWIG. Forgive me!\n\nHEART\u2019S-EASE. Because I feel friendship for you, you imagine that I\nlove you\u2014you are in error.\n\nHEATHER BLOSSOM. I ask only for your friendship.\n\nHELIOTROPE. Give me proofs of your love.\n\nHONEY-SUCKLE. Eternal fidelity! When shall we meet again?\n\nHYACINTH-SINGLE. When I am dead, you will regret your cruelty.\n\nHYACINTH-DOUBLE. Heaven shines in your eyes; the angels listen to your\nwords.\n\nHYDRANGEA. And you could so soon forget me!\n\nIMMORTELLE. True love is unchangeable.\n\nIRIS. Why have you disturbed the peace of my heart?\n\nIVY. I am ever true.\n\nJASMINE. Can calm, domestic happiness content you?\n\nLARK-SPUR. Your love is my aim.\n\nLAUREL. You have my heart.\n\nLEMON BLOSSOM. Give me hope!\n\nLILY-TIGER. My heart burns.\n\nLILY-WHITE. Angel, let me adore you.\n\nLINDEN BLOSSOM. I am favorably inclined to you.\n\nMAPLE-TWIG. What is more painful than to be misunderstood by one you\nlove?\n\nMARIGOLD. I like you not.\n\nMARSH-MALLOW. To fondle is not to love.\n\nMIGNONNETTE. Not beauty, but goodness of heart is my choice.\n\nMULLEN. If you love me, I envy not a king\u2019s crown.\n\nMUSHROOM. Away! go home, and cry about it!\n\nMYRTLE BLOSSOM. Be constant; sweet is the reward of love.\n\nMYRTLE BRANCH. Will you be my wife (husband)?\n\nNETTLE. Beware! coquetry has its penalty.\n\nOAK-LEAF. My fidelity bids defiance to every storm.\n\nOATS. Return.\n\nOLEANDER. True until death.\n\nPARSLEY. You are in love with me.\n\nPEONY. You are too vain\u2014and of what?\n\nPINE. In vain you strive to gain my confidence\u2014stern fate has made me\nrude and silent.\n\nPINK-CARTHUSIAN. Why so reserved?\n\nPINK-VARIEGATED. Friendship is all that I can feel for you.\n\nPOMEGRANATE BLOSSOM. A kiss.\n\nPOPPY. I cannot endure you\u2014you are too stupid.\n\nPOTATO BLOSSOM. Modest worth surpasses outward show.\n\nPRIMROSE. Give me your love\u2014I will cherish it faithfully and in secret.\n\nRANUNCULUS. Where you are there is my home.\n\nRIBBON GRASS. Give me a kiss.\n\nROCKET. Sleep visits not my eyelids; I wake and long for you.\n\nROSE\u2014MONTHLY. Every month you have a new love.\n\nROSE\u2014RED. You pass like a conqueror through the world.\n\nROSE\u2014WHITE. Beautiful are you in childlike innocence, more beautiful\nwill you be when warmed by the breath of love.\n\nROSE-BUD. Your presence fills me with heavenly longing.\n\nROSE-LEAF\u2014RED. Yes!\n\nROSE-LEAF\u2014WHITE. No!\n\nROSEMARY. You were absent\u2014life departed; you returned\u2014I live again.\n\nSNOW-DROP. You have kindled the first sparks of love in my bosom.\n\nSTRAWBERRY. Not earthly rank gives happiness, but worth and amiability.\n\nSWEET-PEA. Your name is inconstancy.\n\nSWEET-WILLIAM. Light and hasty impressions are soon effaced.\n\nTHISTLE. Your words offend me; you have deeply wounded me.\n\nTHYME. I have not understood you.\n\nVERONICA. What would this world be without you?\n\nVIOLET. I love you for your gentle modesty.\n\nWINTERGREEN. Remain constant and true\u2014then we will meet again.\n\nWOOD-SORREL. You brighten my existence as the stars brighten the night.\n\n\n\n\n THIRTY PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICATIONS.\n\n\nSTRENGTH OF BODY is known by a stiff hair, large bones, firm and robust\nlimbs, short muscular neck, firm and erect, the head and breast high,\nthe forehead short, hard, and peaked, with bristly hair, large feet,\nrather thick than broad, a harsh unequal voice, and choleric complexion.\n\nWEAKNESS OF BODY is distinguished by a small ill-proportioned head,\nnarrow shoulders, soft skin, and melancholy complexion.\n\nTHE SIGNS OF LONG LIFE are strong teeth, a sanguine temperament, middle\nstature, large, deep, and ruddy lines in the hand, large muscles,\nstooping shoulders, full chest, firm flesh, clear complexion, slow\ngrowth, wide ears, and large eyelids.\n\nSHORT LIFE may be inferred from a thick tongue; the appearance of\ngrinders before the age of puberty, thin, straggling and uneven teeth,\nconfused lines in the hand, of a quick but small growth.\n\nA GOOD GENIUS may be expected from a thin skin, middle stature, blue\nbright eyes, fair complexion, straight, pretty strong hair, an affable\naspect, the eyebrows joined, moderation in mirth, an open, cheerful\ncountenance, and the temples a little concave.\n\nA DUNCE may be known by a swollen neck, plump arms, sides, and loins,\na round head, concave behind, a large fleshy forehead, pale eyes, a\ndull heavy look, small joints, snuffing nostrils, and a proneness to\nlaughter, little hands, an ill-proportioned head, either too big or too\nlittle, blubber lips, short fingers, and thick legs.\n\nFORTITUDE is promised from a wide mouth, a sonorous voice, grave,\nslow, and always equal, upright posture, large eyes, pretty open and\nsteadfast, the hair high above the forehead, the head much compressed\nor flattened, the forehead square and high, the extremities large and\nrobust, the neck firm though not fleshy, a large corpulent chest, and\nbrown complexion.\n\nBOLDNESS is characterized by a prominent mouth, rugged appearance,\nrough forehead, arched eyebrows, large nostrils and teeth, short neck,\ngreat arms, ample chest, square shoulders and a forward countenance.\n\nPRUDENCE is generally distinguished by a head which is flat on the\nsides, a broad square forehead, a little concave in the middle, a soft\nvoice, a large chest, a thin hair, light eyes, either blue, brown or\nblack, large eyes, and an aquiline nose.\n\nA GOOD MEMORY is commonly attached to those persons who are smaller,\nyet better formed in the upper than the lower parts, not fat but\nfleshy, of a fair, delicate skin, with the poll of the head uncovered,\ncrooked nose, teeth thick set, large ears with plenty of cartilage.\n\nA BAD MEMORY is observable in persons who are larger in their superior\nthan inferior parts, fleshy, though dry and bald.\u2014N. B. This is\nexpressly contrary to the opinion of Aristotle, who says that the\nsuperior parts being larger than the inferior signify a good memory,\nand _vice versa_.\n\nA GOOD IMAGINATION AND THOUGHTFUL DISPOSITION is distinguished by a\nlarge prominent forehead, a fixed and attentive look, slow respiration,\nand an inclination of the head.\n\nA GOOD SIGHT is enjoyed by those persons who have generally black,\nthick, straight eye-lashes, large bushy eyebrows, concave eyes,\ncontracted as it were inwards.\n\nSHORT-SIGHTED PEOPLE have a stern, earnest look, small, short eyebrows,\nlarge pupils and prominent eyes.\n\nSENSE OF HEARING: those who possess the same in perfection, have ears\nwell furnished with gristle, well channelled and hairy.\n\nTHE SENSE OF SMELLING is most perfect in those who have large noses,\ndescending very near the mouth, neither too moist nor too dry.\n\nA NICE FACULTY OF TASTING is peculiar to such as have a spongy, porous,\nsoft tongue, well moistened with saliva, yet not too moist.\n\nDELICACY IN THE TOUCH belongs to those who have a soft skin, sensible\nnerves, and nervous sinews, moderately warm and dry.\n\nIRASCIBILITY is accompanied by an erect posture, a clear skin, a solemn\nvoice, open nostrils, moist temples, displaying superficial veins,\nthick neck, equal use of both hands, quick pace, blood-shot eyes,\nlarge, unequal, ill-ranged eyes, and choleric disposition.\n\nTIMOROUSNESS resides where we find a concave neck, pale color,\nweak-winking eyes, soft hair, smooth plump breast, shrill tremulous\nvoice, small mouth, thin lips, broad thin hands, and small shambling\nfeet.\n\nMELANCHOLY is denoted by a wrinkled countenance, dejected eyes, meeting\neyebrows, slow pace, fixed look, and deliberate respiration.\n\nAN AMOROUS DISPOSITION may be known by a fair, slender face, a\nredundancy of hair, rough temples, broad forehead, moist shining eyes,\nwide nostrils, narrow shoulders, hairy hands and arms, well-shaped legs.\n\nGAYETY attends a serene open forehead, rosy agreeable countenance, a\nsweet musical tone of voice, an agile body and soft flesh.\n\nENVY appears with a wrinkled forehead, frowning, dejected, and\nsquinting look, a pale, melancholy countenance, and a dry, rough skin.\n\nINTREPIDITY often resides in a small body, with red curled hair, ruddy\ncountenance, frowning eyebrows, arched and meeting, eyes blue and\nyellowish, large mouth, and red lines in the hand.\n\nGENTLENESS AND COMPLACENCY may be distinguished by a soft and moist\npalm, frequency of shutting the eyes, soft movement, slow speech, soft,\nstraight and lightish-colored hair.\n\nBASHFULNESS may be discovered by moist eyes, never wide open, eyebrows\nfrequently lowered, blushing cheeks, moderate pace, slow and submissive\nspeech, bent body, and glowing ears of a purple hue.\n\nTEMPERANCE OR SOBRIETY is accompanied with an equal respiration, a\nmoderate-sized mouth, smooth temples, eyes of an ordinary size, either\nfair or azure, and a short, flat body.\n\nSTRENGTH OF MIND is signified by light, curled hair, a small body,\nshining eyes, but a little depressed, a grave intense voice, bushy\nbeard, large broad back and shoulders.\n\nPRIDE stands confessed with arched eyebrows, a large prominent mouth, a\nbroad chest, slow pace, erected head, shrugging shoulders, and staring\neyes.\n\nLUXURY dwells with a ruddy or pale complexion, downy temples, bald\npate, little eyes, thick neck, corpulent body, large nose, thin\neyebrows, and hands covered with a kind of down.\n\nLOQUACITY may be expected from a bushy beard, broad fingers, pointed\ntongue, eyes of a ruddy hue, a large prominent upper lip, and a sharp\npointed nose.\n\nPERVERSENESS may be dreaded, when we perceive a high forehead, firm,\nshort, thick, immovable neck, quick speech, immoderate laughter, fiery\neyes, and short fleshy hands and fingers.\n\n\n\n\n DICK & FITZGERALD,\n\n PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.\n\n\u2042 The Publishers, upon receipt of the price, will send any of\nthe following books by mail, POSTAGE FREE, to any part of the United\nStates. 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This hand-book\n of the Revised Work of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellowship has\n been prepared in conformity with the amendments and alterations\n adopted by the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Canada in September, 1880.\n 16mo, paper cover. 25 cts.\n\n\n The Jolly Joker; or, a Laugh all Round. An Immense Collection of the\n Funniest Jokes, Drollest Anecdotes and most Side-Splitting Oddities in\n existence, profusely illustrated from beginning to end, in the most\n mirth-provoking style. The illustrations alone are sufficient for a\n constant and long-sustained series of good, square laughs for all\n time. 12mo, 144 pages, illustrated cover.\n\n 25 cts.\n\n\n Some Comicalities. A Whole Volume of Jolly Jokes, Quaint Anecdotes,\n Funny Stories, Brilliant Witticisms, and Crushing Conundrums, with as\n many droll illustrations to the page\u2014and every page at that\u2014as can be\n crowded into it. 144 pages. Illustrated cover.\n\n 25 cts.\n\n\nDick\u2019s Dutch, French and Yankee Dialect Recitations.\n\nAn unsurpassed Collection, of Droll Dutch Blunders, Frenchmen\u2019s Funny\nMistakes, and Ludicrous and Extravagant Yankee Yarns, each Recitation\nbeing in its own dialect.\n\nDUTCH DIALECT.\n\n Der Mule Shtood on der Steamboad Deck.\n Go Vay, Becky Miller.\n Der Drummer.\n Mygel Snyder\u2019s Barty.\n Snyder\u2019s Nose.\n Dyin\u2019 Vords of Isaac.\n Fritz und I.\n Betsey und I Hafe Bust Ub.\n Schneider sees Leah.\n Dot Funny Leetle Baby.\n Schnitzeri\u2019s Philosopede.\n Der Dog und der Lobster.\n Schlosser\u2019s Ride.\n Mine Katrine.\n Maud Muller.\n Ein Deutsches Lied.\n Hans and Fritz.\n Schneider\u2019s Tomatoes.\n Deitsche Advertisement.\n Vas Bender Henshpecked.\n Life, Liberty and Lager.\n Der Goot Lookin\u2019 Shnow.\n Mr. Schmidt\u2019s Mistake.\n Home Again.\n Dot Surprise Party.\n Der Wreck of der Hezberus.\n Isaac Rosenthal on the Chinese Question.\n Hans Breitmann\u2019s Party.\n Shoo Flies.\n A Dutchman\u2019s Answer.\n How Jake Schneider Went Blind.\n I Vash so Glad I Vash Here.\n The Dutchman and the Yankee.\n How the Dutchman Killed the Woodchuck.\n Der Nighd Pehind Grisdmas.\n The Dutchman\u2019s Snake.\n Yoppy\u2019s Yarder und Hees Drubbles.\n Dhree Shkaders.\n Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell.\n Hans in a Fix.\n Leedle Yawcob Strauss.\n How a Dutchman was Done.\n Dot Lambs vot Mary Haf Got.\n The Yankee and the Dutchman\u2019s Dog.\n Zwei Lager.\n Schneider\u2019s Ride.\n The Dutchman and the Small-pox.\n Tiamondts on der Prain.\n A Dutchman\u2019s Testimony in a Steamboat Case.\n Hans Breitmann and the Turners.\n\nFRENCH DIALECT.\n\n The Frenchman\u2019s Dilemma; or, Number Five Collect Street.\n The Frenchman\u2019s Revenge.\n Noozell and the Organ Grinder.\n How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull.\n Mr. Rogers and Monsieur Denise.\n The Frenchman and the Landlord.\n The Frenchman and the Sheep\u2019s Trotters.\n A Frenchman\u2019s Account of the Fall.\n I Vant to Fly.\n The Generous Frenchman.\n The Frenchman and the Flea Powder.\n The Frenchman and the Rats.\n Monsieur Tonson.\n Vat You Please.\n The Frenchman and the Mosquitoes.\n The Frenchman\u2019s Patent Screw.\n The Frenchman\u2019s Mistake.\n Monsieur Mocquard Between Two Fires.\n\nYANKEE DIALECT.\n\n Mrs. Bean\u2019s Courtship.\n Hez and the Landlord.\n Squire Billings\u2019 Pickerel.\n Deacon Thrush in Meeting.\n The Yankee Fireside.\n Peter Sorghum in Love.\n Mrs. Smart Learns how to Skate.\n Capt. Hurricane Jones on the Miracles.\n The Dutchman and the Yankee.\n The Yankee Landlord.\n The Bewitched Clock.\n The Yankee and the Dutchman\u2019s Dog.\n Aunt Hetty on Matrimony.\n The Courtin\u2019.\n Ebenezer on a Bust.\n Sut Lovingood\u2019s Shirt.\n\nThis Collection contains all the best dialect pieces that are\nincidentally scattered through a large number of volumes of\n\u202f\u201cRecitations and Readings,\u201d besides new and excellent sketches never\nbefore published.\n\n 170 pages, paper cover 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Dick\u2019s Irish Dialect Recitations. A carefully compiled Collection of\n Rare Irish Stories, Comic, Poetical and Prose Recitations, Humorous\n Letters and Funny Recitals, all told with the irresistible Humor of\n the Irish dialect. Containing\n\n Biddy\u2019s Troubles.\n Birth of St. Patrick, The.\n Bridget O\u2019Hoolegoin\u2019s Letter.\n Connor.\n Dermot O\u2019Dowd.\n Dick Macnamara\u2019s Matrimonial Adventures.\n Dying Confession of Paddy M\u2019Cabe.\n Father Molloy.\n Father Phil Blake\u2019s Collection.\n Father Roach.\n Fight of Hell-Kettle, The.\n Handy Andy\u2019s Little Mistakes.\n How Dennis Took the Pledge.\n How Pat Saved his Bacon.\n Irish Astronomy.\n Irish Coquetry.\n Irish Drummer, The.\n Irish Letter, An.\n Irish Philosopher, The.\n Irish Traveler, The.\n Irishman\u2019s Panorama, The.\n Jimmy McBride\u2019s Letter.\n Jimmy Butler and the Owl.\n King O\u2019Toole and St. Kevin.\n Kitty Malone.\n Love in the Kitchen.\n Micky Free and the Priest.\n Miss Malony on the Chinese Question.\n Mr. O\u2019Hoolahan\u2019s Mistake.\n Paddy Blake\u2019s Echo.\n Paddy Fagan\u2019s Pedigree.\n Paddy McGrath and the Bear.\n Paddy O\u2019Rafther.\n Paddy the Piper.\n Paddy\u2019s Dream.\n Pat and the Fox.\n Pat and the Gridiron.\n Pat and his Musket.\n Pat and the Oysters.\n Pat\u2019s Criticism.\n Pat\u2019s Letter.\n Pat O\u2019Flanigan\u2019s Colt.\n Patrick O\u2019Rouke and the Frogs.\n Paudeen O\u2019Rafferty\u2019s Say Voyage.\n Peter Mulrooney and the Black Filly.\n Phaidrig Crohoore.\n Rory O\u2019More\u2019s Present to the Priest.\n St. Kevin.\n Teddy O\u2019Toole\u2019s Six Bulls.\n Wake of Tim O\u2019Hara, The.\n Widow Cummiskey, The.\n\nThis Collection contains, in addition to new and original pieces, all\nthe very best Recitations in the Irish dialect that can be gathered\nfrom a whole library of \u202f\u201cRecitation\u201d books. It is full of sparkling\nwitticisms and it furnishes also a fund of entertaining matter for\nperusal in leisure moments.\n\n 170 pages, paper cover 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Beecher\u2019s Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic.\n Designed for Public and Private Exhibitions. Contents:\n\n Miss Maloney at the Dentist\u2019s\n Lost and Found\n Mygel Snyder\u2019s Barty\n Magdalena\n Jim Wolfe and the Cats\n The Woolen Doll\n The Charity Dinner\n Go-Morrow; or, Lots Wife\n The Wind and the Moon\n Dyin\u2019 Words of Isaac\n Maude Muller in Dutch\n Moses the Sassy\n Yarn of the \u202f\u201cNancy Bell\u201d\n Paddy the Piper\n Schneider sees \u202f\u201cLeah\u201d\n Caldwell of Springfield\n Artemus Ward\u2019s Panorama\n Tale of a Servant Girl\n How a Frenchman Entertained John Bull\n Tiamondts on der Prain\n King Robert of Sicily\n Gloverson the Mormon\n De Pint wid Ole Pete\n Pat and the Pig\n The Widow Bedott\u2019s Letter\n The Cry of the Children\n The Dutchman and the Small-pox\n Sculpin\n Rats [TN: possibly Bats]\u2014Descriptive Recitation\n A Reader Introduces Himself to an Audience\n A Dutchman\u2019s Dolly Varden\n \u202f\u201cRock of Ages\u201d\n Feeding the Black Fillies\n The Hornet\n The Glove and the Lions\n I Vant to Fly\n That Dog of Jim Smiley\u2019s\n The Faithful Soul\n \u202f\u201cMy New Pittayatees\u201d\n Mary Ann\u2019s Wedding\n An Inquiring Yankee\n The Three Bells\n Love in a Balloon\n Mrs. Brown on the Streets\n Shoo Flies\n Discourse by the Rev. Mr. Bosan\n Without the Children\n Signor Billsmethi\u2019s Dancing Academy\n Der Goot Lookin Shnow\n The Jumping Frog\n The Lost Chord\n The Tale of a Leg\n That West-side Dog\n How Dennis Took the Pledge\n The Fisherman\u2019s Summons\n Badger\u2019s Debut as Hamlet\n Hezekiah Stole the Spoons\n Paddy\u2019s Dream\n Victuals and Drink\n How Jake Schneider Went Blind\n Aurelia\u2019s Young Man\n Mrs. Brown on Modern Houses\n Farm Yard Song\n Murphy\u2019s Pork Barrel\n The Prayer Seeker\n An Extraordinary Phenomenon\n The Case of Young Bangs\n A Mule Ride in Florida\n Dhree Shkaders\n\n Paper covers. Price 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Dick\u2019s Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches and Stump Speeches.\n Containing the following Rich Collection of Negro Dialogues, Scenes,\n Farces, End-men\u2019s Jokes, Gags, Rollicking Stories, Excruciating\n Conundrums, Questions and Answers for Bones, Tambo and Interlocutor,\n etc. Contents:\n\n I\u2019s Gwine to Jine de Masons\n Jes\u2019 Nail dat Mink to de Stable Do\u2019\u2014Oration\n But the Villain still Pursued Her\u2014A Thrilling Tale\n Bones at a Free-and-Easy\n Buncombe Speech\n Shakespeare Improved\n End Gag\u2014Bones and Tambo\n A Man of Nerve\u2014Comic Sketch\n End Gag\u2014Bones and Tambo\n Uncle Pete\u2014Darkey Sketch\n The Rival Darkeys\n The Stage-Struck Darkey\n Add Ryman\u2019s Fourth of July Oration\n Absent-Mindedness\u2014Bones and Tambo\n Don\u2019t Call a Man a Liar\n The Mysterious Larkey\n Rev. Uncle Jim\u2019s Sermon\n The \u2019Possum-Run Debating Society\n Tim Murphy\u2019s Irish Stew\n Brudder Bones in Love\u2014Interlocutor and Bones\n \u2019Lixey; or, The Old Gum Game\u2014Negro Scene\n Brudder Bones\u2019 Duel\n Brudder Bones\u2019 Sweetheart\n Brudder Bones in Hard Luck\n Two Left-Bones and Tambo\n Speech on Boils\n How Bones Cured a Smoky Chimney\n Sermon on Keards, Hosses, Fiddlers, etc.\n Huggin\u2019 Lamp-Posts\n Not Opposed to Matrimony\n How Pat Sold a Dutchman\n The Coopers\u2014one Act Farce\n Questions Easily Answered\u2014Bones and Tambo\n Examination in Natural History\u2014Minstrel Dialogue\n O\u2019Quirk\u2019s Sinecure\n The Widower\u2019s Speech\n Bones at a Raffle\n Uncle Pete\u2019s Sermon\n Bones at a Soiree\u2014Interlocutor and Bones\n Speech on Woman\u2019s Rights\n Bones\u2019 Discovery\n Mark Twain Introduces Himself\u2014Characteristic Speech\n Speech on Happiness\n Burnt Corkers\u2014Minstrel Dialogue\n The Nervous Woman\n The Five Senses\u2014Minstrel Dialogue\n The Dutchman\u2019s Experience\n Essay on the Wheelbarrow\n Bones at a Pic-Nic\n The Virginia Mummy\u2014Negro Farce\n Brudder Bones in Clover\n Artemus Ward\u2019s Advice to Husbands\n Where the Lion Roareth, and the Wang-Doodle Mourneth\n Romeo and Juliet in 1880\n Artemus Ward\u2019s Panorama\n Brudder Bones as a Carpet-Bagger\u2014Interlocutor and Bones\n Major Jones\u2019 Fourth of July Oration\n Curiosities for a Museum\u2014Minstrel Dialogue\n Burlesque Oration on Matrimony\n Brudder Bones on the Raging Canawl\n The Snackin\u2019-Turtle Man\u2014Ethiopian Sketch\n Bones\u2019 Dream\u2014Ethiopian Sketch\n Come and Hug Me\n Widow O\u2019Brien\u2019s Toast\n Scenes at the Police Court\u2014Musical Minstrel Dialogue\n Brudder Bones as a Log-Roller\n De Pint Wid Old Pete\u2014Negro Dialect Recitation\n A Touching Appeal\u2014Dutch Dialect Recitation\n Wounded in the Corners\n Darkey Dialogue\n End Gag\u2014Interlocutor and Bones\n\n 178 pages, paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in board, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Tambo\u2019s End-Men\u2019s Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best Jokes\n and Repartees of the most celebrated \u202f\u201cburnt cork\u201d performers of our\n day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. This Book\n is full of Burnt-Cork Drolleries, Funny Stories, Colored Conundrums,\n Gags and Witty Repartee, all the newest side-splitting conversations\n between Tambo, Bones, and the Interlocutor, and will be found useful\n alike to the professional and amateur performer. Contents:\n\n A Bird that can\u2019t be Plucked\n Annihilating Time\n At Last\n Bashful\n Bet, The\n Big Fortune, A\n Blackberrying\n Black Swan, The\n Bones and his little Game\n Bones and the Monkey Tricks\n Bones as a Fortune Teller\n Bones as a Legitimate Actor\n Bones as a Pilot\n Bones as a Prize Fighter\n Bones as a \u202f\u201cStugent\u201d\n Bones as a Traveler\n Bones as a Victim to the Pen\n Bones as a Walkist\n Bones assists at the Performance of a New Piece\n Bones attends a Seance\n Bones finds Himself Famous\n Bones gets Dunned\n Bones gets Stuck\n Bones has a Small Game with the Parson\n Bones\u2019 Horse Race\n Bones in an Affair of Honor\n Bones in Love\n Bones keeps a Boarding House\n Bones on the War Path\n Bones on George Washington\n Bones on the Light Fantastic\n Bones Opens a Spout Shop\n Bones Plays O\u2019Fella\n Bones sees a Ghost\n Bones Slopes with Sukey Sly\n Bones tells a \u202f\u201cFly\u201d Story\n Brother will come home tonight\n Bones as a Carpet Bagger\n Bones as an Inkslinger\n Bones in a New Character\n Bones in Clover\n Bones\u2019 Love Scrape\n \u202f\u201cCullud\u201d Ball, The\n Conundrums\n Curious Boy\n Dancing Mad\n Dat\u2019s What I\u2019d Like to Know\n Definitions\n De Mudder of Inwention\n Difference, The\n Don\u2019t Kiss every Puppy\n \u202f\u201cFar Away in Alabam\u2019\u201d\n First White Man, The\n Fishy Argument\n Four-Eleven-Forty-Four\n Four Meetings, The\n From the Poiks\n Girl at the Sewing Machine\n Hard Times\n Hard to take a Hint\n Heavy Spell, A\n Highfalutin\u2019\n Horrible!\n How Bones became a Minstrel\n How Tambo took his Bitters\n How to do it\n Impulsive Oration\n Inquisitive\n Jeallusest of her Sect\n Legal Problem, A\n Liberal Discount for Cash\n Manager in a Fix, The\n Mathematics\n Merry Life, A\n Momentous Question\n Mosquitoes\n Music\n Notes\n Ob Course\n Our Shop Girls\n Pomp and Ephy Green\n Presidency on de Brain\n Proposed Increase of Taxes\n Railroad Catastrophe\n Reality versus Romance\n Rough on Tambo\n Sassy Sam and Susie Long\n School\u2019s In\n Shakespeare with a Vengeance\n Simple Sum in Arithmetic\n Sleighing in the Park\n Sliding Down the Hill\n Style\n Sublime\n Swearing by Proxy\n Tambo\u2019s Travelling Agent\n That Dear Old Home\n \u202f\u201cThe Pervisions, Josiar\u201d\n Thieves\n Tonsorial\n Toast, A\n Uncle Eph\u2019s Lament\n Waiting to See Him Off\n You Bet\n And 40 popular songs and dances.\n\n Everything new and rich. Paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n McBride\u2019s Comic Speeches and Recitations. Designed for Schools,\n Literary and Social Circles. By H. Elliott McBride, Author of\n \u202f\u201cMcBride\u2019s Humorous Dialogues,\u201d etc., etc. This is one of the very\n best series of original speeches, in Yankee, Darkey, Spread-Eagle and\n village styles, with a number of diverting addresses and recitations,\n and funny stories, forming an excellent volume of selections for\n supplying the humorous element of an exhibition. Contents:\n\n A Burst of Indignation\n Disco\u2019se by a Colored Man\n A Trumpet Sarmon\n Sarmon on Skilletvillers\n Nancy Matilda Jones\n Hezekiah\u2019s Proposal\n About the Billikinses\n Betsy and I are Out Once More\n A Stump Speech\n About Katharine\n Deborah Doolittle\u2019s Speech on Women\u2019s Rights\n A Salutatory\n A Mournful Story\n An Address to Schoolboys\n Zachariah Popp\u2019s Courtship and Marriage\n A Sad Story\n How to Make Hasty Pudding\n My Matilda Jane\n Courtship, Marriage, Separation and Reunion\n Lecture by a Yankee\n A Colored Man\u2019s Disco\u2019se on Different Subjects\n A Girl\u2019s Address to Boys\n McSwinger\u2019s Fate\n Peter Peabody\u2019s Stump Speech\n Mr. Styx Rejoices on Account of a New Well Spring\n Victuals and Drink\n Speech by Billy Higgins on the Destruction of His Rambo Apple Tree\n A Boy\u2019s Address to Young Ladies\n An Old Man\u2019s Address to Young Wives\n Salu-ta-tat-u-a-ry\n Valedictory.\n\n Paper covers, illuminated 30 cts.\n Board covers, illuminated 50 cts.\n\n\n Burton\u2019s Amateur Actor. A Complete Guide to Private Theatricals;\n giving plain directions for arranging, decorating and lighting the\n Stage and its appurtenances, with rules and suggestions for mounting,\n rehearsing and performing all kinds of Plays, Parlor Pantomimes and\n Shadow Pantomimes. Illustrated with numerous engravings, and including\n a selection of original Plays, with Prologues, Epilogues, etc. By\n C.\u202fE. Burton.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n How to form an Amateur Company.\n Duties of the Manager and Prompter.\n Theatrical Music.\n Rules for an Amateur Company.\n How to Arrange a Stage.\n How to Make a Curtain.\n How to Light the Stage.\n Colored and Calcium Light Effects.\n How to Make and Paint the Scenes.\n How to Imitate Moonlight, Sunrise, Thunder, Rain, Wind and various\n other effects.\n How to make all kinds of \u202f\u201cProperties.\u201d\n How to make up Dresses, Wigs, Beards, etc.\n How to \u202f\u201cmake up\u201d the Face to imitate Old Men and other characters.\n General Directions for Acting.\n Stage Business, Entrances and Exits.\n Four Appropriate Prologues; Three Epilogues.\n On the Selection of Plays.\n A Family Fix. Comedy for Three Males and three Females.\n The Philopena. Comedy for two Males and one Female.\n Directions for Performing Parlor Pantomimes.\n Love\u2019s Obstacles; or, Jack\u2019s Triumph. An Original Parlor Pantomime.\n Complete Directions for Performing Shadow Pantomimes.\n Detailed Instructions for producing all Shadow Illusions.\n The Feejee Islanders at Home. An Original and unequaled Shadow\n Pantomime.\n A list of Farces, Comedies, etc., specially adapted to Parlor\n Performances, with the Characters of Each Enumerated and Described.\n\n 16mo, illuminated paper covers. Price 30 cts.\n Bound in Boards 50 cts.\n\n\n Howard\u2019s Book of Drawing-Room Theatricals. A collection of short and\n amusing plays in one act and one scene, especially adapted for private\n performances; with practical directions for their preparation and\n management. Some of the plays are adapted for performers of one sex\n only.\n\n CONTENTS.\n Males. Females.\n Explanations of stage directions. | | |\n Hints to Amateurs. | | |\n The Student\u2019s Frolic | 3 | 2 |\n A Household Fairy | 1 | 1 |\n A Kiss in the Dark | 2 | 3 |\n Mrs. Willis\u2019 Will | | 5 |\n Jack of all Trades | 6 | |\n His First Brief | 3 | 2 |\n A Sudden Arrival | 5 | |\n A Medical Man | 2 | 1 |\n A Terrible Secret | 2 | 2 |\n Poisoned | 4 | |\n An Eligible Situation | 2 | 6 |\n \u202f\u201cWanted a Young Lady\u201d | 2 | 1 |\n\n Paper Covers. Price 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Tambo\u2019s End-Men\u2019s Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best jokes\n and repartees of the most celebrated \u202f\u201cburnt cork\u201d performers of\n our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. Also\n containing a rich collection of Ballads, humorous and pathetic. Darkey\n Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous\n Lectures, Laughable Interludes, Huge Africanisms, Burlesque Stump\n Speeches. Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums, Yarns, Plantation\n Songs and Dances, etc., etc. In short, a complete Hand-Book of Burnt\n Cork Drollery, which will be found alike useful to the professional\n and amateur. Everything new and rich.\n\n Paper covers. 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Tony Denier\u2019s Parlor Tableaus, or Living Pictures. Containing\n about eighty popular subjects, with plain and explicit directions\n for arranging the stage, dressing-rooms, lights, full description of\n costumes, duties of stage manager, properties and scenery required,\n and all the necessary directions for getting them up. Among the\n contents there are nine tableaux for _male_ and an equal number for\n _female_ characters only. A great number of them introduce groups of\n boys, and many more groups of girls only; others again introducing\n both; and still more in which entire classes can take part. Everything\n is stated in a plain, simple manner, so that it will be easily\n understood; everything like style or unnecessary show has been\n avoided. For public or private entertainment, there is nothing which\n is so interesting as the tableau.\n\n Price 25 cts.\n\n\n Tony Denier\u2019s Secret of Performing Shadow Pantomimes. Showing how to\n get them up and how to act in them; with full and concise instructions\n and numerous illustrations. Also full and complete descriptions of\n properties and costumes.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nIntroduction; Shadow Bluff, or, Who\u2019s Who? Tooth Drawing Extraordinary;\nAmputation like Winking; The Haunted House; We Won\u2019t Go Home till\nMorning; Jocko, or the Mischievous Monkey; The Madcap Barber; Cribbage,\nor, The Devil among the Cards; The Lover\u2019s Stratagem; The Game of Base\nBall; Regular Hash, or, The Boarding-House Conspiracy; The Mechanical\nStatue; The African Serenaders; The Model Prize Fight; The Magic Cask,\nor, The Industrious and Idle Apprentice; The Tragical Duel, or, The\nComical Rivals; Old Dame Trot and her Comical Cat.\n\n Price 25 cts.\n\n\n Brudder Bones\u2019 Book of Stump Speeches and Burlesque Orations. Also\n containing Humorous Lectures, Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro\n Farces and Burlesques, Laughable Interludes and Comic Recitations,\n interspersed with Dutch, Irish, French and Yankee Stories. Compiled\n and edited by John F. Scott.\n\n This book contains some of the best hits of the leading negro\n delineators of the present time, as well as mirth-provoking jokes and\n repartees of the most celebrated End-Men of the day, and specially\n designed for the introduction of fun in an evening\u2019s entertainment.\n\n Price 30 cts.\n Bound in boards 50 cts.\n\n\n Burton\u2019s Amateur Actor. A complete guide to Private Theatricals;\n giving plain directions for arranging, decorating and lighting\n the Stage; with rules and suggestions for mounting, rehearsing\n and performing all kinds of Plays, Parlor Pantomimes and Shadow\n Pantomimes. Illustrated with numerous engravings, and including a\n selection of original Plays, with Prologues, Epilogues, etc.\n\n 16mo, illuminated paper cover 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n READINGS AND RECITATIONS.\n\n Kavanaugh\u2019s New Speeches and Dialogues for Young Children. This is\n an entirely new series of Recitations and short Dialogues, by Mrs.\n Russell Kavanaugh. Containing easy pieces in plain language, readily\n understood by little children, and expressly adapted for School\n Exhibitions and Christmas and other juvenile celebrations.\n\n Paper cover 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Kavanaugh\u2019s Exhibition Reciter, for Very Little Children. A\n collection of entirely Original Recitations, Dialogues, Short Speeches\n and Speaking Tableaux, adapted for very little boys and girls;\n including also a variety of pieces, humorous, serious and dramatic,\n suitable for children from Three to Ten Years Old.\n\n Paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in board covers 50 cts.\n\n\n Kavanaugh\u2019s Juvenile Speaker. For Very Little Boys and and Girls.\n Containing short and easily-learned Speeches and Dialogues, expressly\n adapted for School Celebrations, May-Day Festivals and other\n Children\u2019s Entertainments. Embracing one hundred and twenty-three\n effective pieces. By Mrs. Russell Kavanaugh.\n\n Illuminated paper cover 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Dick\u2019s Series of Recitations and Readings, Nos. 1 to 15. Comprising\n a carefully compiled selection of Humorous, Pathetic, Eloquent,\n Patriotic and Sentimental Pieces in Poetry and Prose, exclusively\n designed for Recitation or Reading. Edited by Wm. B. Dick. Each number\n of the Series contains about 180 pages.\n\n Illuminated paper cover, each 30 cts.\n Bound in full cloth 50 cts.\n\n\n Beecher\u2019s Recitations and Readings. Humorous, Serious, Dramatic,\n including Prose and Poetical Selections in Dutch, Yankee, Irish, Negro\n and other Dialects.\n\n 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Howard\u2019s Recitations. Comic, Serious and Pathetic. Being a\n collection of fresh Recitations in Prose and Poetry, suitable for\n Exhibitions and Evening Parties.\n\n 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Spencer\u2019s Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations. A\n collection of Comic Speeches, Humorous Prose and Poetical Recitations,\n Laughable Dramatic Scenes and Eccentric Dialect Stories.\n\n 192 pages, paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Wilson\u2019s Book of Recitations and Dialogues. Containing a choice\n selection of Poetical and Prose Recitations. Designed as an Assistant\n to Teachers and Students in preparing Exhibitions.\n\n 188 pages, paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Barton\u2019s Comic Recitations and Humorous Dialogues. A variety\n of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Eccentric Orations and\n Laughable Interludes.\n\n 180 pages, paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n Martine\u2019s Droll Dialogues and Laughable Recitations. A collection\n of Humorous Dialogues, Comic Recitations, Brilliant Burlesques and\n Spirited Stump Speeches.\n\n 188 pages, paper covers 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n \u2042 CATALOGUES SENT FREE.\n\n\n DIALOGUE BOOKS.\n\n Graham\u2019s School Dialogues for Young People. Being a new and original\n collection of Dialogues intended for Anniversaries and Exhibitions,\n carefully prepared and well calculated to develop dramatic talent.\n\n 176 pages, illuminated paper cover 30 cts.\n Bound in boards, cloth back 50 cts.\n\n\n McBride\u2019s New Dialogues. 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In which Uncle George narrates\n to his nephew the experience he has gathered in the course of his\n travels West and East; showing him, in a chatty and familiar style,\n the devices, tricks, appliances, and advantages by which gentlemanly\n gamblers fleece the unsophisticated and unwary in the popular game of\n Draw Poker, and offering him plain and fatherly advice as to the best\n means for frustrating their efforts and avoiding their traps. Every\n one who takes a hand at \u202f\u201cDraw\u201d will be a gainer by perusing what\n Uncle George says about it, and become a wiser as well as a richer\n man. Quarto. Paper. Price 25 cts.\n\n\n Proctor on Draw-Poker. A Critical Dissertation on \u202f\u201cPoker Principles\n and Chance Laws.\u201d By Prof. RICHARD A. PROCTOR. 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This hand-book\n of the Revised Work of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellowship has\n been prepared in conformity with the amendments and alterations\n adopted by the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Canada in September, 1880.\n 16mo., paper cover, 25 cts.\n\n\n The Jolly Joker; or, a Laugh all Round. An Immense Collection of the\n Funniest Jokes, Drollest Anecdotes and most Side-Splitting Oddities in\n existence, profusely illustrated from beginning to end, in the most\n mirth-provoking style. The illustrations alone are sufficient for a\n constant and long-sustained series of good, square laughs for all time.\n\n 12mo., 144 pages, illustrated cover 25 cts.\n\n\n Some Comicalities. A Whole Volume of Jolly Jokes, Quaint Anecdotes,\n Funny Stories, Brilliant Witticisms, and Crushing Conundrums, with as\n many droll illustrations to the page\u2014and every page at that\u2014as can be\n crowded into it. 144 pages.\n\n Illustrated cover 25 cts.\n\n\n McBride\u2019s New Dialogues. Especially designed for School and\n Literary Amateur Entertainments; containing entirely New and Original\n Dialogues, introducing Irish, Yankee, and other eccentric characters.\n By H. ELLIOTT MCBRIDE.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n _A Happy Woman._\n _The Somnambulist._\n _Those Thompsons._\n _Playing School._\n _Tom and Sally._\n _Assisting Hezekiah._\n _A Visit to the Oil Regions._\n _Breaking up the Exhibition._\n _Turning Around._\n _A Little Boy\u2019s Debate._\n _The Silver Lining._\n _Restraining Jotham._\n _A Shoemaker\u2019s Troubles._\n _An Uncomfortable Predicament._\n _The Opening Speech._\n _The Cucumber Hill Debating Club._\n _Married by the New Justice._\n _Bread on the Waters._\n _An Unsuccessful Advance._\n _When Women Have Their Rights._\n _Only Another Footprint._\n _Rosabella\u2019s Lovers._\n _A Smart Boy._\n _A Heavy Shower._\n _Master of the Situation._\n\n The marked favor with which the four preceding volumes have been\n received suggested the necessity for an increased variety of new\n eccentric and characteristic pieces, to form an addition to the\n repertoire contained in \u202f\u201cMcBride\u2019s Comic Dialogues,\u201d \u202f\u201cMcBride\u2019s All\n Kinds of Dialogues,\u201d \u202f\u201cMcBride\u2019s Humorous Dialogues,\u201d and \u202f\u201cMcBride\u2019s\n Temperance Dialogues.\u201d They are all written with a view to develop\n dramatic talent, and abound in quaint humor, Dialect Drolleries, and\n telling stage \u202f\u201csituations.\u201d\n\n 16mo., 178 pages, illuminated paper cover 30 cts.\n Bound in boards 50 cts.\n\n\n Dick\u2019s Book of Toasts, Speeches and Responses. Containing Toasts and\n Sentiments for Public and Social Occasions, and specimen Speeches with\n appropriate replies suitable for the following occasions:\n\n_Public Dinners_, _Social Dinners_, _Convivial Gatherings_, _Art and\nProfessional Banquets_, _Manufacturers\u2019 Meetings_, _Agricultural\nand Commercial Festivals_, _Special Toasts for Ladies_, _Christmas,\nThanksgiving and other Festivals_, _Friendly Meetings_, _Weddings\nand their Anniversaries_, _Army and Navy Banquets_, _Patriotic and\nPolitical Occasions_, _Trades\u2019 Unions and Dinners_, _Benedicts\u2019 and\nBachelors\u2019 Banquets_, _Masonic Celebrations_, _Sporting Coteries_, _All\nKinds of Occasions._\n\n This work includes an instructive dissertation on the Art of making\n amusing After-dinner Speeches, giving hints and directions by the\n aid of which persons with only ordinary intelligence can make an\n entertaining and telling speech. Also, Correct Rules and Advice for\n Presiding at Table.\n\n The use of this work will render a poor and diffident speaker fluent\n and witty\u2014and a good speaker better and wittier, besides affording\n an immense fund of anecdotes, wit and wisdom, and other serviceable\n matter to draw upon at will. Paper covers.\n\n Price 30 cts.\n\n\n How Boggins Was Cured. An intensely ludicrous sketch, pictorially\n expressed; showing how Mr. Boggins, who had been reduced to a\n despairingly crippled state by rheumatism and a complication of\n other causes, was induced to submit to the wonderful effects of a\n course of dynamo-electro magnetic therapeutics, tracing the magical\n and potent effects of the treatment, and the heroic efforts he made\n while submitting to the doctor\u2019s system of pathology; until, crowned\n with complete success, he is able to throw aside his crutches and is\n restored to perfect health and pristine agility. An entirely new and\n original series of sketches. Funny! is no name for it. Small quarto.\n\n Illustrated 10 cts.\n\n\n Dick\u2019s Games of Patience; or Solitaire with Cards. New and Revised\n Edition. Containing Sixty-four Games. Illustrated with Fifty\n explanatory full-page Tableaux. This treatise on Solitaire, a pastime\n which is steadily gaining in popularity, embraces a number of new and\n original Games, and all the Games of Patience at present in favor with\n the most experienced players. This comprehensive work contains the\n following Games:\n\n _Auld Lang Syne._\n _Tam O\u2019Shanter._\n _The Four Seasons._\n _Simplicity._\n _The Gathering of the Clans._\n _Napoleon at St. Helena._\n _The Calculation._\n _The Surprise Party._\n _The Four Kings._\n _The Clock._\n _The Garden._\n _The Queen\u2019s Audience._\n _The Phalanx._\n _The Idle Year._\n _The Chameleon._\n _La Belle Lucie._\n _The Shamrocks._\n _The House in the Wood._\n _The House on the Hill._\n _The Grand Duchess._\n _The Constitution._\n _The Beleaguered Castle._\n _The Citadel._\n _The Exiled Kings._\n _Penelope\u2019s Web._\n _Napoleon\u2019s Square._\n _The Court Yard._\n _The Windmill._\n _Leoni\u2019s Own._\n _La Nivernaise._\n _The Four Corners._\n _The Baker\u2019s Dozen._\n _The Salic Law._\n _The Sultan of Turkey._\n _The Fortress._\n _The Hemispheres._\n _The Elevens._\n _The Chester Game._\n _The Shah of Persia._\n _The Empress of India._\n _The Zodiac._\n _The Blockade._\n _The Besieged City._\n _The Fourteens._\n _Napoleon\u2019s Favorite._\n _The Fifteen Puzzle._\n _The Contra-Dance._\n _The Betrothal._\n _The Reinforcements._\n _The Reserve._\n _The Frog._\n _The Pyramid._\n _The Quadrille._\n _The Chatelaine._\n _The Order of Precedence._\n _The Congress._\n _Thirteen Down._\n _The Octagon._\n _Light and Shade._\n _St. Louis._\n _Rouge et Noir._\n _The Blondes and Brunettes._\n _The Royal Cotillion._\n _Nestor._\n\n Each game is carefully and lucidly described, with the distinctive\n rules to be observed and hints as to the best means of success in\n play. The Tableaux furnish efficient aid in rendering the disposition\n of the cards necessary to each game plain and easily comprehensible.\n The difficulty usually attending descriptions of intricate games is\n reduced, as far as possible, by precision in method and terseness of\n expression in the text, and the illustrations serve to dispel any\n possible ambiguity that might be unavoidable without their aid. The\n work is attractive in style and elegant in execution, and will prove\n an interesting companion for many a solitary hour. Quarto. 143 pages.\n\n Board cover 75 cts.\n Cloth $1 00.\n\n\n Dick\u2019s Parlor Exhibitions, and How to Make them Successful.\n Containing complete and detailed directions for preparing and\n arranging Parlor Exhibitions and Amateur Performances. It includes:\n\n _Tableaux Vivants._\n _Living Portraits._\n _Living Statuary._\n _Dame History\u2019s Peep Show._\n _Shadow Pantomimes._\n _Popular Ballads illustrated by appropriate action._\n _Charades of all kinds._\n _Parlor Pantomimes._\n _Punch and Judy._\n\nAND FIFTY OTHER DIVERTING PARLOR PASTIMES AND AMUSEMENTS.\n\n It contains also a full Catalogue of the celebrated \u202f\u201cART EXHIBITION,\u201d\n and a practical treatise on the wonderful SCIENCE OF SECOND-SIGHT,\n by the aid of which all the startling effects and achievements of\n second-sight may be performed by any one possessing a tolerable\n retentive memory.\n\n This work is thoroughly practical and gives the fullest instructions\n for preparing and lighting the stage, the construction of the FRAMES\n FOR LIVING PORTRAITS, and shows how each performance can be presented\n with complete success. 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This\n book gives plain and comprehensive instructions how to dance all the\n new and popular dances, fully describing\n\n _The Opening March or Polonaise_,\n _Various Plain and Fancy Quadrilles_,\n _Waltz and Glide Quadrilles_,\n _Plain Lancers and Caledonians_,\n _Glide Lancers and Caledonians_,\n _Saratoga Lancers_,\n _The Parisian Varieties_,\n _The Prince Imperial Set_,\n _Social and Basket Quadrilles_,\n _Nine-Pin and Star Quadrilles_,\n _Gavotte and Minuet Quadrilles_,\n _March and Cheat Quadrilles_,\n _Favorite Jigs and Contra-Dances_,\n _Polka and Polka Redowa_,\n _Redowa and Redowa Waltz_,\n _Polka Mazourka and Old Style Waltz_,\n _Modern Plain Waltz and Glide_,\n _Boston Dip and Hop Waltz_,\n _Five-Step Waltz and Schottische_,\n _Varsovienne and Zulma L\u2019Orientale_,\n _Galop and Deux Temps_,\n _Esmeralda, Sicilienne, Danish Dance_,\n\nAND OVER ONE HUNDRED FIGURES FOR THE \u202f\u201cGERMAN;\u201d\n\n To which is added a Sensible Guide to Etiquette and Proper Deportment\n in the Ball and Assembly Room, besides seventy pages of dance music\n for the piano.\n\n Paper covers 50 cts.\n Bound in boards 75 cts.\n\n\n Odell\u2019s System of Short-Hand. 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The Tableaux furnish efficient aid\n in rendering the disposition of the cards necessary to each game\n plain and easily comprehensible. The difficulty usually attending\n descriptions of intricate games is reduced, as far as possible, by\n precision in method and terseness of expression in the text, and the\n illustrations serve to dispel any possible ambiguity that might be\n unavoidable without their aid. The work is attractive in style and\n will prove an interesting companion for many a solitary hour. Quarto.\n Illustrated.\n\n Paper cover 75 cts.\n Cloth $1.00\n\n Blackbridge\u2019s Complete Poker Player. A Practical Guidebook to the\n American National Game; containing mathematical and experimental\n analyses of the probabilities of Draw Poker. By JOHN BLACKBRIDGE,\n Actuary. 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O. Box 2975. Publishers, New York.","title":"The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller: Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers.","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":95454}